What must it be like to be limited?
If there is only one path to follow, how free are you?
Sure you could wander off the path, but being lost is no goal.
But if you had more than one path, you'd be free to choose.
I've often wondered what its like,
For more than half the population to not even factor in, in your head.
And yet I'm the anomaly, and I can't understand it.
My wiring makes me unable to understand yours.
People say that more choice must mean more success
When you put it like that it seems patently wrong,
But some do believe it.
Its quite the opposite, I've come to find.
If there are more fish to capture, you must be the more experienced fisherman
Skilled with the rod, as it were.
That's another falsehood commonly spread,
Although the most favourable.
Like you we have no issue sparing the rod,
We may have multiple paths, not necessarily multiple faces.
Yet you distrust us, see us as disloyal.
Not so. Because for all our potential paths, we must eventually choose one.
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Odes to the Erotes
PoesíaA series of Love poems focusing on understanding and exploring the many different kinds of love. Focusing first on the seven love gods, the Erotes, then on forms of love in the greek language, and finally in famous romances of the greek gods. This...
