Hello everyone and welcome to this weeks Tantalising Tuesday. Every Tuesday a group of authors including myself, get together to write 200 words about a picture of our own choosing. Here is mine for this week, enjoy:
A GOOD CHOICE?
We all have a choice. At least that was what l was told. We control our destiny, we decide our futures, we make all the decisions. Yeah?
How exactly do we do that?
Do we just disregard those whose lives we will be affecting with those decisions? Do we talk in great depth to everyone involved and reach a decision based on the general feeling?
Or do we just stay where we are in our safety zones and watch?
At the crossroads l stand now, and it's a lonely, scary place.
Talked too much, time to act.
This way or that? Up or down? Left or right?
'You know,' my heart says, 'Why don't you listen to me?'
'Leave the desert, stay focussed, you know you can do it!'
Somewhere in the distance is you, waiting.
Trusting me to come and share your world.
I can! I can laugh, dance, cry, kiss, love, love, love...!
I love so many people.
And I love you.
Ok, here l go, stepping tentatively forward as the clouds swirl around my head and the sand blows up to try to obscure my view. The signs are swinging in the wind, creaking and pointing in different directions...
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Ha! Did l tease you enough this week? Thank you for stopping by, please leave me a comment and do take time to click on the link and visit the others taking part today!
Gemma
Very nice, Gemma! So many decisions, but listening to one's heart is always good advice. :)
ReplyDeleteWell written piece Gemma and so true about our choices and decisions
ReplyDeleteOh, wonderful, Gemma! I love the way it's all in the head, the indecision and the overwhelming sense of desire that somehow infuses itself in what doesn't seem like...okay, if I keep this up, the comment will be longer than the post! Great job!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, my first try at a comment didn't work. This was fabulous Gemma! I loved the indecision and the way it was all wrapped up in the desire and the passion. The image of the sand and clouds...mmmm, that's some good writing!
ReplyDeleteExcellent teaser. Poignant. Makes you address your own inner desires, worries and questions about which way forward. Well done!
ReplyDeleteVery cerebral. I am familiar with that indecision, the sense of loss.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! This sounds just like the philosophical soliloquy I indulge in when I find myself at the many crossroads of life.
ReplyDeleteCross roads face us each and every day. Thoroughly enjoyed this teaser. Nice :)
ReplyDeleteFantastically deep teaser! Loved it!
ReplyDeleteDeep post! I think we sometimes all have these crossroads of indecision.
ReplyDeleteProfound post. Loved your TTT this week.
ReplyDeleteThat was very deep. Loved it!
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