By Geddy Ridgeway
How exciting
Deciding to live
Persevere
Parsing your story
Extracting any purpose
Still choosing to probe
The right to life
Implies the inverse
Though that seems so frightening
To extend contemplation
Beyond familiarity
How daunting
What a pity
Living as a passenger
When action is at your fingertips
Decisiveness
That’s courage
Exploring untamed wilderness
We recognize the unknown’s silence
But destiny is alluring
Both to me and the man at the helm
Potential, promise, temptation
That’s what draws me in
But I don’t dare venture further
A self-fulfilling prophecy
I return to that final stage
Though I stand at the edge––trembling
While I’m not set on permanent solution
I’m familiar with her effects
Seducing lost minds into a facade of control
Warm baths numb the pain
Stories told in a few lines
Scan her arms for a memoir
Possibilities are endless
Yet I’m still too shy to meet them
Hopefully I’ll stay timid
I’ve settled on indecision
Not for lack of trying
Life just seems insurmountable
We keep enduring
Not in search of purpose
But in resigned acceptance of her absence
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