POEMS: Free Choice and Voice Choice

November 1, 2012 · Scotorum

These were written for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday and Friday Fling poetry challenges. The first overlaps the themes of potions and choice of each challenge, the second more specific to the Fling’s Choices theme.

FREE CHOICE

I pray for a potion
for what we truly need:
against misinformation
which blames alleged “greed.”

For it is not sinful
to work hard for some wealth,
as long as we’re mindful
of what sustains our health.

And that is the freedom
to be what we prefer.
Shun those who’d mislead ‘em;
to a few rules defer.

For regimentation
will not make us happy.
Each new generation
will know that it’s cr*ppy.

Let us keep the option
to live as we choose,
else humans’ last caption
could be “all of us lose.”

VOICE CHOICE

I find that when making life choices
I listen to the urgent voices
the ones which echo in my head
Wish I could make out what they said.