choice

Change and Constancy

/ joethewaller / 2 Comments

The train is now departing.
I stand upon the platform and I wonder,
Did I choose rightly when I chose to stay?
Is this the better way?
What life would now be starting
If I had stepped aboard and joined the thunder
Of racing steel and distant storms, away
From where I stand today?

But who could say?

Life is a series of decisions,
Of written words without revisions.
I wish I never made mistakes.
I often do.
Yet on clear tracks and in collisions,
You meet our needs with good provisions.
Through all that mends and all that breaks,
You remain you.

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Note: A quick Google search revealed that the line “Life is a series of decisions” has been used in many other works. While I didn’t have any specific source in mind when I decided to use that line, I recognize that the wording isn’t original to me.

You call me to surrender

/ joethewaller / 3 Comments 
You call me to surrender,
   to lay down the desires of my heart
      willingly.
   I would rather you take them from me,
      for then my part would only be
         to accept what I cannot change.
            To give me a choice—
            that is a difficult test.
      But let me be found faithful.
   Help me to trade treasure
      for greater treasure,
         the fleeting for the lasting,
      to sit through the eclipse
         by faith.
None who wait for you shall be put to shame.

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