Crossroads



the choice is simple, yet complex
to join the flow or back to the beginning
the knife of thoughts, my mind dissects
I have but minutes, it's almost final inning

so many roads of picks ahead
so many doors that closed behind
i threat myself to start the tread
of something seemingly benign

a plethora of things, around, in flight
from black to white,
with lots of whats and whys
and ways and weighs
the yeses and the nays

I can go back, abaft the beam
a lead to navigate the dream
that woke me up so early for so long
or should I tell that dream: "so long?!"
or I can stay and buoy with tide
diurnally, the lows the highs
and trust my masters
to choose the height
of my yet undetermined flight

the cons, the pros and I suppose
you too relate to poor decision making

I known for certain, when it's done
my sight will leap - direction forward
for now...however, having fun
with sea- against the shore-ward

it's very near,
it's close enough to touch
it's scalpel's sharp before incision
I only hope to know this much
I want to make the right decision
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BXBX CCDEE FFGGXDXCC XA HXHX XIHIH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,013
Words 201
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 9, 2, 4, 5

Didar Baizhanov

Somewhere between my birth in the land-locked nation of Kazakhstan and becoming U.S. Merchant Marine officer - poetry became something of a satellite in my travels through life ;) ____________________ My most sincere Thank You! for the feedback! ____________________ Here are some poems that I liked (here on Lulu), please give appropriate authors your comments if you get a chance:- October Hearts by PoetryofJune - High(Coup) by JayS (haiku) - Tranquility by Beccanine - Nemesis by Timothy Francis Savage - My Bright Place by Zenocyde - I Fought in a War by Justin R Esplin (haiku) - Love Blooms by Dee Edgett - A Haiku: Violin Music by Clara B. Ray - Cigarettes by faustus - Implode by Elise Hadden - Haiku: Violet Roses by PoetryofJune - The Friend I Didn't Want - Ryan Wong :) - Plus Infinity by Neli Fatu de Valahia - Never Good; Never Bad by Graham Geiger - Two Snowflakes by Kiran - With a grey sky by Spirals - Pine Needles by Matthew Lerette - Bound Again by Danny Warren Patterson - Lie-F by RomanoJohnson - A Child's Memory of a War by Change - A Cold November Day by Bonchance - El espejo roto (The Broken Mirror) by Taqua-------------------------------- more…

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