Snow Melt

Choices

My response to the Leading Journal entry by Erika for September 17, 2008.

"Invalid Entry"  made on the
spur of the moment without
looking at consequences.

As I walk pain radiates,
from my right knee with each step
I walk on,
as the pain writes itself on my soul.

Perhaps,
it wasn't a good idea to walk
from work on Atlantic
to the Food 4 Less on the corner of Sahara and Eastern,
buy four quarts of oil
and a bottle of dish washing liquid;
then carry it to the bus stop
and eventually all the way home
in addition to my heavy purse.

Was it the bus drivers fault
or my inattentiveness that caused
the bus to top two or three blocks
further up Eastern
then I wanted.

I have to admit
that at 61 I can't do everything
I could do at 16;
I know that the pain in my right knee
increases when I walk on cement sidewalks;

The choice was mine
of course,
simply because I didn't look at consequences
doesn't mean I'm not responsible
for my own choices
and my own pain.