Choices

 I don’t need to drink
 I don’t need to cry
 I don’t need to live
 I don’t need to die
  
 This is my task
 This time and this place
 It may not be easy
 It may not feel safe
  
 I can decide 
 What path it will take
 I can choose to be true
 Or choose to be fake
  
 I can be one who hides
 Or be one who seeks
 Or be one who pushes
 Herself to the brink

 The choices don’t stop 
 And the end is not clear  
 For a self that’s not real
 That’s not even here

 So who is it that’s choosing
 Who is it that lives
 Who is it that rises
 Aspires to give?
  
 To reach the true end
 When there’s no end to reach
 As above so below
 Where the universe speaks.