Every choice
involves a cost.
Each word said
means others go unspoken.
Every yes,
brings many nos.
Every road taken,
leaves others unknown.
Every opportunity seized,
excludes so many possibilities.
Every gain,
brings much loss.
I will never know
what my choices
led me to miss.
I can never measure
if what I did is worth
what went undone.
But sometimes,
I am filled with wonder.
Amen.