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"Supporting the Light"
Decisions
Sub: and life goes on
Decisions.
We make them every day.
Some after hours of careful thought,
Some in an instant made,
But still we make them,
And life goes on.
Decisions.
That card you bought,
That dress you thought would please.
Alas, it only did enrage.
And yet we make them,
And life goes on.
Decisions.
Those that are made in haste,
When in a spot, time being short,
No time to weigh, the pros and cons.
But still we make them,
And life goes on.
Decisions.
Those that do change our course,
O'er which we muse for many a long day.
And though, with some in firm conviction
We take our stand.
There are those others for which no real
Assurance can be found.
And yet we make them,
And life goes on.
Decisions.
How time has often proved them wrong.
The way we turned, the cause to which
We gave our yea or nea.
The spouse we took,
or may be took for granted.
Time has revealed the errors of our way.
But still we make them,
And life goes on.
Decisions.
Not all are weighed with futures we would change.
That child that grew into a boy.
Who, though a picture of his mother be,
In thought and little ways of life,
So like oneself, in tenderness and trust.
No changes would we make.
And life goes on.
For life to be enacted thus,
Does in itself necessitate of us consent.
Not that its length our decisions will
Protract beyond its time.
More, that we each day, each hour,
Each breathing moment,
By our decisions deem it so to be.
For we must make them,
If life is to go on.
And though infallible we cannot hope to be,
To choose what's right and never to be wrong.
Still, each waking day, we must by
Conscious thought decide the next step of our way.
And should you say that life is not ours
To decide, or that the pressures of this
Life leave but one way open.
Still, to consent is ours alone to say.
And we must,
If life is to go on.
From the collection of poems
‘From Tourism to Reality’
George Ballance © 1976Copyright 2007 (c) Almond Ministries