I Know How It Ends

I know how it ends.
Choice or Destiny - either way,
  we make it.

All the paths laid out before me,
   each step unknown but planned.
So many lessons in these life choices
  to be taken and learned but only in proper time.
Marriage and children, widowed and divorced,
  what was written in by destiny?

Teaching, care giving, loving and being loved
  each  a planned unplanned expectation.
It was enough though quite difficult
  to meet, accept and satisfy those wants and needs.
Responsibility was  taken as it came
   not gladly but with love and foresight or its lack thereof.

In love, with love,  each gave into another
   and the call was realized and recognized.
With acceptance and quiet prayers to hold it back,
  but life takes its course as intended.
I may not have forseen the journey,
  but chose my way along its crossroad of destiny
and 
  I know how it ends.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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A   Avatar
April 28, 2016 at 12:13 AM
DM Babbit, well done on your win. Luv ~LINDA~
Kimathi Avatar
April 26, 2016 at 5:02 AM
Greetings DM. Congrats for your placement in the contest!!! ;-)
A. Sharma Avatar
April 19, 2016 at 10:27 PM
Congrats on ur awesome win DM..
Delaney Avatar
April 19, 2016 at 6:49 PM
We all know how it ends. We have no choice but to live until that moment. Congratulations on a fine poem.
Raven Avatar
April 19, 2016 at 3:39 PM
Hi DM, Congratulations on your win in the contest....Mike.
Negron Flores Avatar
April 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM
Congratulations DM Babbit on the placement of the contest
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