Choices

What makes you?
What breaks you?
What builds you?
Is it the truth
or the dissolution of lies
you no longer desire to hide?
Now, I am a shattered woman
made whole
through broken pieces
glued together with
Elmers and hope.
Before, I was the girl
lost in the tall trees of
self hate
trying to negotiate
with other people's opinions
of my soul.
Now, I teach the youth
the truth
that choices
make you
break you
build you
not the untrue
gossip that drips
from someone else's lips.
A single moment can
alter the sands of history
and make opinions of you falter.
Waver like the flame dances
Looking for second chances
with the dark.
But the choices of tomorrow
can snuff out the
Voices of yesterday.