CHOICES

If you listen to what’s said, if you listen to all the chat,

Some people will say this and some will say that.

But when you’re hearing all the voices

It still comes down to making choices.

Some people try to decide for you

What’s good or bad and what’s true.

Just listen to what they say

Then make a choice on what to keep and what to throw away.

When someone gets in your face, nose to nose and tries to tell you how it’s gonna go,

You have a choice to make, you can say yes or you can say no.

You can choose to stand toe to toe.

You can choose to walk away or if punches you should throw.

Just remember, for what you choose to say,

Sometimes for your choice, you have to pay.

Yes, you get to make the choice of the way it will be.

Just remember in life choices aren’t free.

If you choose to tell the boss what you do and don’t like,

He might choose to tell you to take a hike.

If you choose to tell your lover you’ve found someone else to meet,

You may come home and find she chose to throw all you stuff in the street.

You may choose to love someone for the rest of your life.

You may choose to ask her to be your wife.

If she chooses and feels the same thing,

You might choose to buy her a ring.

You may choose for your bill not to pay,

Only to find out the collection man chooses not play.

You may choose to take what you want even if you have to kill.

But then you may find out that sword has a double edge and your blood it will spill.

You may choose to travel down a gravel road so very long.

At the fork in the road, you may choose the road that leads to wrong.

You may choose not to worship and pray.

But then you’ll have to answer for that on judgment day.

We don’t choose when our life begins,

And most of us don’t choose when it will end.

From the beginning, no matter what you hear from the voices,

Until the day it ends, it’s all about choices.

STANLEY HENDRIX

07/2008

My book of poems "DEEP DARK SECRETS" is available at AMAZON.COM, KINDLE, and CREATESPACE.COM