Poetry: Decisions
@innertalks (21927)
Australia
July 14, 2021 12:38am CST
Decisions were baffling to John.
He did not know how to make them.
He differed around on one side, then the next,
and never decided which side to ride on.
John relied on nothing but himself,
but he was well versed in it all.
He never decided to decide at all,
until he decided to decide, with withdrawal.
If time is playing too big a role,
you have made the wrong decision.
You dither over one side, or another,
when you should let the decision decide.
The speed of a decision made makes it good,
only if the decision is the right one.
Remember the wrong decision is never right,
so do not make wrong right, by decision.
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The right way always remains the right way, and the wrong way is never right.
But are all roads right, in their way too?
Perhaps any road would lead us home, if our heart is with us too.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
14 Jul 21
i came upon a fork in the rode (Frost)
the choices we have to make when the path forward is not clear. This is a great poem pal. The line the wrong decision is never right, would be the piece I would struggle with.
the argument being, the now is always immediate. Sometimes the wrong decision now, can be the right decision later.
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@innertalks (21927)
• Australia
14 Jul 21
The missing frog in the pond is that there are no wrong decisions.
Everything always turns out to be the right next step in our path.
It only appears to be wrong at the time, but in the total journey for us, that wrong was really right for us too.
So the wrong is never right because there is no wrong, but if we see it as just being wrong, it can never be right.
We need to see the right in the "wrong" for it to become right for us too. Otherwise, the wrong remains wrong.
@innertalks (21927)
• Australia
14 Jul 21
@DocAndersen Yes, we are always on the right path, how could we ever not be?
God provides the right path for all to walk upon, and it will always lead them into Heaven.
What happens is that we are busy trying to construct our own path on God's path, and thereby only mess it up by creating potholes for us to fall into, and boulders upon the way, that will loom as fear, and threaten to fall down on us too.
We need to trust the path that God has provided for us, and love him enough to tread it without fear, and with total faith in its direction, and end result, or goal, and destination, for ourselves too.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
14 Jul 21
@innertalks very nice - it is the path we must follow. our steps lead us to our answers.
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@innertalks (21927)
• Australia
14 Jul 21
Yes, I thought someone might say that.
But, in hindsight, doesn't that make that "wrong" path the right path, after all?
If wrong leads to right, it must have been part of the right, (and not wrong, after all) because to my mind, the wrong only ever leads to more wrong, otherwise, it would not be wrong.
I am, of course, playing with words there, as sometimes when we do take the wrong path, we can have a sudden realisation that we are on the wrong path, and so, yes, we do then turn back again to the right path then, again too.
Our overall path can have a few "wrongs", or wrong turns on its path, but overall we are still heading in the right direction.
When something bad happens to someone, they sometimes, will say, that later on that that was the best thing to happen to them in their lives, as it turned their life around, so that major wrong, turned out to be right for them, after all.
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