Showing posts with label freedoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedoms. Show all posts

Choices

Choices.
We all have to make them.
Which drink to drink.
Which thought to think.
Is this rock bottom
Or nirvana's brink?
Here’s a hint:
                     It's in your hands.
And yet our plans never seem to pan
Out.
Cause we schedule our schemes without talking.
We’re riffing without harmony and walking
When we should be dancing
And asking:
“What do you wanna do?”
I know you get frustrated
When you’re waiting and I’m saying
“I’m not sure, it’s so hard to decide”
But we’re drowning in a sea
Of unnecessarily delineated similarities
Dubious differences,
Invisible to the naked eye.
Distracting.
As wide as a sigh
With the full spectrum of importance
From turquoise
To teal.
Until you don’t know what to feel
‘Cause they’re stealing your freedoms.
Do you want gold or silver bars on your cage?

Choices.
We all have to make them.
Which turn to turn.
Which bridge to burn
Which path to choose.
Who’s respect to earn.
Here’s a hint:
                                It’s your own.
And when you’re thrown from your throne
That you built with blood and bones
Then you’ll have to knot your rope
And start climbing.
Hand over blistering hand.
The shifting sands of others’ expectations
And your own anchor preoccupations
Determine at which strata you plateau.
And although the decisions you make
May be different from his, or hers, or mine
Remember they’re yours,
But they do not define
you.

Choices.
We all have to make them.
Which battle to battle,
Which river to rattle,
Which knowledge to keep
Are we mind or matter?
Here’s a hint:
                                Reprioritise.
And when you try to look past
All the inconsequential shite
Of a world more commercial than pure
Be assured
You will see the ones who choose
Substance abuse over substance
You will see the ones who choose
Long term betrayal over temporary tears
And you will say
“They’ve made the wrong decision”
As if it were your undeniable right to judge them
And begrudge instead of empathise
Instead of recognizing
That the preferences of others are not your responsibility
And your own susceptibility to deference
To a power you perceive to be greater than your own
Is deceiving.
It’s another way to opt out of believing
In yourself
And your ability

To choose.