Those Choices
Virginia Carraway Stark

Beautiful
Ascended
A thousand times I died
Promising to return
I saw no reason not
To keep away from the other side
Because
It seemed like giving up
And I didn’t want to leave the stage

-plus there was this promise I had made-

I wasn’t afraid of leaving
But saw no need to go
So I linger on
Despite
The
Beautiful
Ascended
World that there is beyond
The Universe is kind to us
It lets us fundamentally decided
We might regret
Our choices later
It might seem a disservice was committed
It does a world of wonder
To handle some starlight
and remember how
Beautiful
Ascended
Those choices are always there
If we ever want to make them
Dying is always there
Living is always there too
The better gift of the two
The harder gift to take
We must be brave and we must
Never forget
The scintillating joy we felt
When we chose the light within
and to return that self same light
to the world we walk