If you think about the things
that never would have happened
had you never entered that door
the mind buckles
the brain bleeds.

You would live elsewhere
You wouldn’t work there.
The people you know
the people you love
the foods you eat
the books you read
the games you play
the ways you pay
all would be different
if you’d simply chosen not to open that door.

Some decisions are hard,
some easy
and some
you may realize
were not really decisions at all
but more like acts of fate.