#choices poems on Hello Poetry

Francie Lynch Jul 2024

Given the choice...
There is no choice.
No alternative
To poll your voice.
Be surgical.
Be precise.
This isn't the time
For being nice.
Fight against what you know's not right.
This is the quarrel for our childrens' lives.

#family #politics #voting #children #choices

Jeremy Betts Jul 2024

~•§•~ Free Will or Destiny? ~•§•~

From my view, while side eyeing beyond the periphery
I basically see a place that's not a place anybody would actually choose to be
But when it's the landscape of your own psyche
It's hard to see any way out of the intensity that will always accompany insanity
And no one can hear your inner voice plea for much needed mercy
Begging yourself to set yourself free
But this inescapable captivity is your eternity
But it just occurred to me,
I can't tell if this is free will or destiny...
Did I choose to fall slowly?
Maybe I decided to come undone gradually
Or did some higher power think this was best for me?
Either way's bad news for my trajectory
Zero possibly of a redemption story
No guts
No glory
Just constantly repeating "sorry"

©2024

#view #choices #psyche #intensity #insanity #inescapable #captivity #eternity

Dian Lestari Jun 2024

Life

Life is unpredictable
Flying in no direction like a bubble
One moment happy, one moment miserable
You dream of everything so beautiful and simple
Instead you were thrown from the cradle
You think everything could be a trouble
On the contrary, everything looks easy to handle

Hanging like leaves on fragile branches
Today may be hit by storms and haters
Tomorrow may be crowned with honey and goodness
You dive into a world full of lies
Be careful with sweet mouths and prejudices
Life is like a dice
There are always lots of choices
Maybe you should think twice

#life #happy #trouble #choices

Jamesb Jun 2024

Choices

We are all the sum
Of choices made,
Whether right or whether wrong,
Made in good faith
Or in bad,
And the Good Lord knows
I have made many good but
Also many bad,
Worse than that I have acted
Upon the worst of these,
As much as on the best,
But here is the question
That I wonder,
When it came from push
To shove,
I chose
You,
Did I do right to love you?
Or is this love just another
Poor and painful
Choice?
Only you can truly answer,
But to see that I have invested My all in your net nothing
Would break my heart

#choices #choice #pain #consequences

Jeremy Betts Jun 2024

~•§•~ I Choose Lonely, Thank You ~•§•~

You break my heart every day and twice nightly
Hell, I'd rather be lonely
I'd rather be lonely
Than to be rejected by my one and only
I'd rather be lonely
Than feel unwanted by another claiming they love me
I'd rather be lonely
Than completely dismiss the better half my personality
I'd rather be lonely
Than watch you act like it's a chore to explore a little intimacy
I'd rather be lonely
Than to witness you go out of your way to avoid my advancements like they're icky
I'd rather be lonely
Than feel more unwanted than I did through my first 40
I'd rather be lonely
sigh
I can't imagine anybody actually choosing to be lonely
But here I am, holding out for my somebody to join me

©2024

#broken #daily #nightly #lonely #rejection #unwanted #love #dismissive #intimacy #choices

Persephone Dagenhart May 2024

Moirai

All it took for me to see.
I sow within the deepest parts of me.
Weave between the cracks and holes.
My veins will tell me until I bruise.

I know that I will rue the day that I have to choose.
-Rain

Is it really up to you?

#poem #insecurity #choices #choice #decision #indecision #poetry #sad #depression #death

The Poetic Architect Feb 2024

The Big Bad Wolf

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There’s a story not so long time ago,
And there’s this Big Bad Wolf
Hovering where he wants —
Aiming and locking his target.

His arrows do not look like scary
And most are wrapped in beauty —
In gems and in gold,
In iron and in silver.

He will eat his prey alive
But at times, he can paralyze too.
The prey doesn’t know the schemes,
Coz he too doesn’t know he’s the prey!

The Big Bad Wolf seemed nice,
They say he’s like a sheep too.
But how foolish are the beholder of those eyes!
For he doesn’t realize even the time of his death!

#prey #predator #life #discernment #choices

The Poetic Architect Feb 2024

The Foolish Vessel

022524

Everyone holds their own containers
And the Day 1 of your life
Will make your cup overflowing —
You will be so, so full of life.

But when the Time comes
And the Overseer checks what’s in your hands…
Will He be pleased that you left nothing for yourself?
Or be dismayed coz you’re still full of yourself?

How will you measure yourself?
What is your standard?
Will you pass the testing?
Will you pass the fire and be the purest gold?

#life #decisions #choices #folly #wise

Carlo C Gomez Feb 2024

Gasoline Rainbows

~
Dressed for purgatory
But early to the party
So many bodies in the house next door
A living dance upon dead minds

A grocery store sunset
Thru the windshield of an SUV
Gets you distorted colors in
Gasoline rainbows
From those precise lines
Of the turning lane
Love ends at a traffic light

We do this to ourselves
All in the pursuit of happiness

Church of questionable things
Descending like vultures
Where idols once stood
For individual suffering

A pageantry of jackals
Quiet like sirens
Picking at parts of bad contestants
Playing a game called 'poisoned trees'
Fallen soldiers in strange negotiations
With meantime brides
Riding on the train of irresponsibility
For no apparent reason

We do this to ourselves
All in the pursuit of happiness
~

#decisions #choices #consequences #reap #sow #misguided #happiness