There are moments when we all stand
upon a line between two extremes -
a terminator between night and day,
a fulcrum of balance between order and chaos -
because there are moments when
we find ourselves removed from our lives,
removed of identity, removed of any knowledge
of who and what we are, who and what we were,
and who and what we are supposed to be;
and then follows the choice:
Which path to follow? Which route to take?
Which power within us to call upon?
Which fate to hear the voice of
and all them to dictate our destiny,
our future, our life going forwards?
And we are asked: what we would be willing 
to sacrifice for what we want
and what we say we need above everything else.
It’s not always easy. It’s not always hard.

It’s not always possible to understand
how the choices of a single person
may affect the outcome of countless lives,
until you are already living in the reality you made
and are now looking back upon
how, when, where, and why you chose to do what you did.

Sometimes our choices are taken out of our hands;
sometimes our decisions are made
by others who believe they are meant
to have control over us;
sometimes our fall and our pull
towards the side and the energy
we feel the most seduced to
can feel as if it was always going
to happen and may have already happened,
and so much so that there was never any way
for us to change the course of inevitability.

We are at our most susceptible
to doing something wrong,
that at the time feels right,
when we at our most vulnerable -
and that is when and where questions are asked
and answers come quickly,
and so do actions that we may
one day wish to take back;
however, some things and some people
inevitably can never revert, nor return,
to how they once were
and we have to hone up to
the new state of affairs we may be
in some way responsible for.

Because each and every one of us -
from the bad to the good,
from the saint to the sinner,
from the faithful to the traitor -
have to go through so much throughout our lives
and each and every one of us at some point in time
must be reminded of the importance of sometimes
having to traverse what feels like a high wire
and proceed undeterred while walking
and finding ourselves veering one way or another
from the line of life that we have lived
before we found ourselves considering
the possibilities, the opportunities,
the consequences, and the rewards
of either staying upon the path of what we know
or embracing the allure of the unexpected
and putting your trust in the hope of the unknown.

Each and every one of us,
every day of our lives,
must be brave and resolute
every step of the way
that we take upon “the line”.