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When Life Comes at You


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When Life Comes At You

 

 

It stuns near the end

to discover every instant

meant exactly what you

took away that day

 

when you finally realized

that you must get over yourself

to consider the effects of all

your impulses and actions

 

your choices changing

everything forward

adding to or detracting

from the total

 

a process that does not end

until there are no more decisions

left to you alone and you become

subject to the choosing of others

Posted

Wow, Those last three lines are REALLY stark. But in the poetic, dramatic way. Certainly there is truth in them, they were just written powerfully.

Posted

When I worked on this a few years ago, I realized that not being in control of myself was my biggest fear. You caught me, Marti.

Posted

I agree with Marti. The last three lines convey a strong thought.

"Words are not things, and yet they are not non-things either." - Ann Lauterbach

Posted

Thank you, Joel. Your comment is gratifying.

  • 1 month later...
David W. Parsley
Posted

Piling on the last three lines, Paco. Wow.

 

Thanks (I think),

- Dave

Posted

I kinda liked the whole thing. And especially "that you must get over yourself". Boy if all of us could do this, life would be so much easier.

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