The Flip
With just a call, my future is split.
My efforts, tears I’ve spilled,
For the career I built
Halted by the silence
When the receiver clicked.
All that I’ve done has led to this moment,
The nights I spent in,
Aches from the days when envy and greed
Demanded to be paid.
Now the question remains,
Which path should I take?
Do I continue down,
The familiar road?
The rural world,
Frozen in time,
Where my support team
Stays by my side…
With the condition..
I continue to hide.
Surely they won’t mind?
If I color outside the lines.
Just as long as I continue
To live the life
They’d always dream of for me.
Yeah, that could work,
A life that is half alive,
Where I’d always be content..
Yet never satisfied.
But this new path,
Offers a world to be explored,
A world of roads newly paved
From a night when I attempted to
Play the Whiskey Lullaby.
This path, shrouded in mystery,
Where down this road,
I can remove the cloaks
Draped from misery.
It calls to me,
Pleading me
For a journey
Into the unseen.
I reach out to the path
That calls to me,
When something tugs me.
My life that I’ve built,
People I care for, do you think
Time can wait for me?
So free from responsibility,
Yet I let myself
Get chained to one space
To appease the facade face race.
Head fighting heart,
Unsure of what to do,
Closed eyes and
Fallen to my knees,
I ask for guidance.
I open my eyes,
To catch a glimmer,
A sparkle in the dark.
Cool to the touch,
Round and light,
Answering my call.
A coin, minted in my year.
I whisper my question into its ear,
Asking it to guide me,
Throwing out logic and fear,
Time becomes clear.
Time slows,
Watching my paths take form,
Like a portal,
A looking glass into the years,
Answering the question of my fears.
Spinning in the air,
Fate twists and turns,
Splitting my universe into two,
Holding my breath,
Heads over tails,
Flipping sides,
Till it lands on one side.
