Choice – A Thread You Follow

Surviving Choices

Was that the correct choice?
Did I make the right decision?
Was I thinking correctly?
Is there a path and am I on it?
Though these questions
nag and bubble up inside
to rattle my brain from
time-to-time they are better
than the spirit-withering
clawing of the negative voice
that condemns the small steps
which I have made to survive.

Direction

The dollar calls from the direction of irony
where spirit, this time, attaches itself 
with blessings and Sunday ceremonies.

The voices of plenty shout from the other side,
dwelling in pages of countless books lined
on shelves dwindling to the horizon.

I live uncomfortably in the space of paradox,
between incongruity and enough, hoping
for the strength to simply abide.