Choice is yours

What is "Self"?  It is a choice

Is forgiveness a choice?

Resolution is you. Yes, it's within you.

So what is the answer?

It's ahead.

But what questions should I answer?

Ask instead, what fills your head?

Faced with challenges,

Bred then fuelled; 

Focus veers off road,

With addictive tools.

These platforms are tools?

I think they're fools.

To replace words and education,

With pictures, buttons and temptations that gruel.

But we sign up, 'cause we all search,

And we watch others search,

For that magical verse in our "me" song,

Where the clouds part and the birds sing along.

Only to learn, 

That it takes a life time,

To shed layers.

It takes a life time,

To uncover your truth.

And once you're bare,

The secret of you, 

Will remain locked within you, 

Unaccessible still, 

Because "she" gives that privilege to no one,

including you.

Instead "she" quietly rests in the same place she's existed all these years.

Now just without the weight.

Just without the pressure, 

Knowing it's never too late.

People will talk anyway.

Life will wind you anyway.

The layers will build anyway.

So the choice is yours.

Will you wait till the end when you're alone and bare?

Or will you walk now with your forgiving wise soul, spared of the layers?

Sam.