"Decisions"

Though it's a bit hard to see the words, my poem is about a girl who has made mistakes and and bad decisions in her life. They are eating her away, as she is upset with herself because she knows she can never take back what she'd done. She one day tells a man that she loves and trusts about the choices she had made, and how now she would like to choose to welcome in a new life, and a new path. The main message I wanted to get across was that no matter how many bad choices you may make, the one good choice you should make is to choose to start and accept a better life/lifestyle for yourself. In the picture, I tried to convey the girl in the poem, in all grey (a dull, and depressing color) and the only thing that was colored were her lips, and the words coming out. They were colored because they were the things that were important, and what changed her life, and caused her pain, but they also were important because they needed to be able to change her life back once again. The words were also the words she was trying to convey to the man she told her decisions to in the story, words like choices, decisions, pain, want, hate, and change. In the end, her words were what ruined her life, but they were also going to be the things that changed it back, and she was going to be able to welcome in a new life for herself, filled with good choices and change.

Pain.

Stopped,

Took a Deep Breath.

It no longer seemed important,

Not her decision could reclaim a lifetime.

She waited,

Looking into the morning sunlight, 

She quickly, tenderly, spoke,

With spare, oblique words.

She let him know

How deeply she felt about her choices.

She could now only choose,

To welcome her new life.