un-actioned decisions
a man walks
blindfolded and alone
desperately searching for meaning
finding nothing
he cries
and clings to his own broken form
the remnants
of a series of an un-actioned decisions
the only identity left to embrace
nonetheless he smiles
unable to hide the irony
that only now does he finally feel safe
About:
The ‘un-actioned decision,’ a concept introduced by a friend to highlight those choices we are forced into making by circumstance, affliction, or fate.
Decisions we can never quite sit with and thus cause friction, pain, resentment, and profound loneliness.
This poem is my attempt at capturing and expressing those emotions that come with walking up to a life where you are now living in the consequences of those un-actioned decisions, and thus are fundamentally not happy and have to fix things from such a state of brokenness.
This poem is inspired by the book How To Write Evocative Poetry
