tough choices make stronger people

Choices are full

of unidirectional opportunities.

They can also be the toughest obstruction

a man can ever encounter.

Priorities play a major role in the choices we make;

the battle ensues between one’s heart and head,

knowing that what is right must win

over what one wants in the end.

What does one do

when what is right and what one wants

are not analogous? 

Back to the quiet

to determine in the present

that which is right for the some;

because some people need to truly matter,

and do.

Choices are full

of despondent moments,

and others are full of delight.

The potential outcome

of how one may likely feel

should never determine a preference;

for it is the company of pain and discontentment

that true character is built.

Choice leads to transition

and transition leads to change.

Change gives birth to inner chaos

and inner chaos leads to honesty...if you let it.

Honesty leads to pain

and pain leads to perseverance.

Perseverance leads to hope

and hope leads to a new beginning.

New can only arrive

in the arms of good choices

painfully made.

~2011 Vaughn Wood