Sometimes Decisions Don’t Need to be Made
by
Radiance Angelina Petro

Sometimes, when I see lightning, I wish
I could be that decisive. As it is, everything is either
numerator or denominator, resulting in repeating

decimals. Although, one time I got to strike an anvil
with a hammer, and someone once said I was fox-
level trickster. But what I’d really like to do is

remove a seed from its shell, put it in my mouth,
and grow into a tree. I have occasionally spoken
a turning word, and played tag with children, and I am

glad for that. Thing is though—there is no such thing
as limitless life, or shooting for the everlasting, and
playing twenty-questions gets boring.

So why should I worry my beliefs are too shallow?
Someone once said we all have seven destinies,
and I’ve used up five already, and so, I think it’s time

to remember the next time lightning strikes,
I will say to the absolute, positively world: “Thank you,”
because sometimes decisions don’t need to be made.