Choices (first published in BlazeVOX)
DIRECTIONS: Read this to powerful music.
In all that time, I would have this thought.
You use words. Others have thoughts too.
But it never fails. It happens.
Disappointment. Something to overcome.
And the only way that can be done is with a tool.
A hammer. And you understand something larger.
Open chamber. Bits of skull with matted hair.
The housings of thought. But not your thoughts.
And once you give in to this curiosity, stop.
Regret sets in. And something larger…
(OR: Read this to whatever you like.)