From the Bright to the Dark and Everything In Between

From the Bright to the Dark and Everything In Between

When I got the news

I wanted to hide

Like an ostrich

With my head buried

Deep in the safety of the sand

Pretending that it would all

Just go away and pass me by

But doing that with anything in life

Is not a viable option

For me, or anyone else, really

To do that is really to choose to die

And I choose to live my life

It isn’t the first time

This choice has come to me

Though, it is one of the hardest choices to make

This road before me is hard and dark

But I won’t be walking it alone

And even if I were

I’d like to think that I would choose

To walk down it anyway

With my head held high

If only to see what was down this path

No matter how wonderful or horrible

The fate that awaited me

If this is the only life I have

Or the only life I will ever get to remember

Then I deserve to experience everything

That it has to offer me

From the bright points to the dark

And everything in between

Form: cautiously hopeful

10-6-11