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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2009-06-18 11:47 AM

I Choose My Choice

I walk a gravel shore
after the salmon have spawned;
their dead bodies lie everywhere,
returning to Nature.
Do these creatures have a spirit,
a personal energy that returns knowingly
to some spirit world?

What about me? What do I know of this?
Do I return? Do I move forward
to some old place or some new place?
Is it of my own making?
Someone else’s choice for me?

Do I determine my destination into the after life?
Interesting thought:
How does one plan for such a future?
Such an eventuality? How can one be sure?

Seems to me it does not matter
if I can be sure or only guess:
what truly matters is that I choose my choice!
I’ve seen enough of death and destruction
more than enough –
therefore I choose a world
that no longer entertains death:
where there are no wars and no killings;
where no one dies from lack of care,
or lack of food;
where people know what sharing means.

If that is the kind of world I choose –
and most normal people would choose the same –
isn’t it terribly sad,
that not one of us is permitted
such a world right here, on this planet?

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2009-06-18 02:26 PM

I have always had a feeling that
one day we will evolve to a point where we can create a diferent world, WW.
Ida

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2009-06-18 07:05 PM

"therefore I choose a world
that no longer entertains death:
where there are no wars and no killings;
where no one dies from lack of care,
or lack of food;
where people know what sharing means."

most fine (but sadly, 'fantasy') idealism!

humanity assuredly has demonstrated immense technological progress...
but psycho-sociologically we seem to be a retarded species still hiding in
caves and rather intently focused on making ever-more-deadly (and far
reaching) 'war clubs'

applause for this 'penning' !!

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

3 posted 2009-06-18 09:41 PM

If that is the kind of world I choose –
and most normal people would choose the same –
isn’t it terribly sad,
that not one of us is permitted
such a world right here, on this planet?

That is a very thought provoking post you have written there WW, I read it with great interest, well done.

Lindsay

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2009-06-21 07:05 PM

another 'write' definitely worth revisiting !

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