7 Days, 7 Stories: Day 3 — April 23rd

🕮 Day #3 on getyourwordsout.

Please enjoy!

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In Choosing

The trick is

To survive the gauntlet thrown by my own choices
One step at a time: left, right, wrong, right
And time marches on, they say
Inexorable, challenged or unchallenged
Through an ordeal shaped by consequence.

The trick is

To bear choice’s weight as it grows evermore heavy
Each cause an effect: right, wrong, neither, both
And time will tell, they say
Inexorable, repercussive and compounding
Consequences mass, heedless of virtue’s standards.

The trick is

To choose the manner of my own scarification
As is my right or my wrong: what blood to spill?
And time heals all wounds, they say
Inexorable, regardless of whose skin was rent
Each consequence borne on knit flesh, indelible.

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Well! This is definitely a poem! Of some sort! I have been contemplating this topic a lot recently, because I've had to make a series of medical decisions for my cat. And I broke through some of my perfectionism, because of it, in learning how to make them. So. Good and bad. LOTS of big feelings, lol. I apparently can't write poetry unless I feel very strongly about something, or have phrase floating around in my head like a seapolished stone.

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7 Days, 7 Stories: Day 1 — April 21st

🕮 Day #1 on getyourwordsout.

Please enjoy this short story about a lost alien. :)

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