May 18–24 ❘ Choose Ye This Day
Choose Ye This Day
There’s paradox
in having abundant options,
a riotous tangle of freedom.
Every tender branch springs
green with possibility.
Which do I clip to let light in
and give room for new growth?
It’s like thumping heavy,
hollow-sounding melons
and not knowing which one echoes
most believably with sweetness,
or standing before Frost’s
two equal, divergent, leaf-
lined roads, unable to decide
which wins my commitment,
or writing without an editor
to prune overgrown metaphor,
reading without a seer stone
to focus inspiration, trying
to choose God with no one
to remind me why.
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