Shall I but Fight: 10 New Year Resolution-Questions
Posted January 1, 2009 · Charles O
I.
Shall I roil in life’s gale,
Or shall I fight?
II.
Shall I waft through coil or squall,
Or cast my rudder headlong?
III.
Shall I bid fate clutch my gorge and throttle,
Or take longsword to doom’s heart?
IV.
Shall I bow to happenstance,
Or lock Taurus in brusque embrace?
V.
Shall I forfeit to id’s daemon,
Or wrest flair from churlish charge?
VI.
Shall I loll trodden by time and tempest,
Or battle tide thrust to final gasp?
VII.
Shall I court guilt in hope’s court,
Or right Tyche’s myriad blunders?
VIII.
Shall I treasure lethal faeries’ kisses,
Or traverse wastelands of warm affection?
IX.
Shall I revel in youthful desires,
Or avow my one score and eight?
X.
Shall I invoke God’s divine reckoning,
Or temper rage with pointed purpose?
And for good measure, an eleventh:
XI.
Shall I cede scuffle—and scurry,
Or shall I fight an added night?
Charles E. Oyibo
i Januarius MMIX