The Right Choices

The Right Choices There are those who have gladly made their drugs of choice. Then, there are those whose choices took away their voice. When just a little lad, I stealthily opened our refrigerator, and experienced such distaste as I secretly drank hard liquor. Fortunately, for me, neither of my parents ever discovered my crime. In addition, thankfully, I never acquired a taste for drinking a second time. And also when just a lad, with friends I secretly took puffs from cigarettes. Again, I escaped detection; and for this deed, my parents never had to protest. O, the deeds of a child that often remain hidden and never remedied. But then, there are those who early on, choose rightly by God’s Grace alone. They make better choices; drugs never being among them. And O, what pain we avoid, by making the right choices. 05302016 PS Contest, That Colorful Drug, by Lewis Raynes; HM Contest, Any HM ever, Laura Loo; 5th Pl.