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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Silly Is This? ...or...Does Your Next Move Matter? .....[Personal; Life; Death]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Why do I care at all what next I do in life? <br>After all I'm the boss of me...though I don't say that to my wife.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Well sometimes I do care, but should it really matter? <br>Is it better to be Alice or better to be Mad Hatter? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What it really comes down to is the LITTLE decisions I make.<br>Shall I immerse myself in a novel, or out-the-garbage-take? <br>Well, luckily, as I'm retired, I've more leeway in my choices.<br>I've got time to respond to my mind's contradictory voices.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I should not feel guilty, and try not to feel guilty, about what I do next.<br>I'm the boss after all, so 'Let me not be vexed'! <br>Shall I start a new poem? It seems the thing to do.<br>The household chores I have in mind can wait a day or two.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I've lived a pretty full life. I'm satisfied with myself.<br>What things I don't do from now on can just stay on 'the shelf'.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I think I've done enough to live up to expectations, <br>and if I don't 'measure up' then DAMN the calculations! ! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">My dear Mother is long since gone, but still her lead I follow.<br>I think my days contain some goodness; they are not just hollow.<br>I don't believe in 'God', but if I did I think She would agree<br>that I've done what is expected, and She'd smile at me.<br> <br>And although I've had relationships in which 'some' have said I failed, <br>I truly believe they ended because my EFFORTS were bewailed.<br>And perhaps as some small evidence that I was not a cad: <br>my major former partners, to talk to me these days, are glad. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And if you believe humans have a duty to pass on DNA, <br>I've performed my 'duty'. (But it was only to let my first wife have her way.) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Well I guess I got a little carried away with this poem, but ain't it all the same? <br>To take out garbage, or write a poem, or have a child…it's all a game.<br>It's part of the game of life and who's to say what and if it does matter. <br>But let not this, my casual-view-of-life, your outlook on YOUR life shatter. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=353054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(July 2012)</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Bri+Edwards">Bri Edwards</a></strong></div>