Shackled

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I watch you enter - eyes downcast

uneven gait, carrying a weight

too heavy for one so young.

What brought you to this place —

happenstance; circumstances

beyond your control?

Was it a conscious choice,

what played a roll?

Who where your role models

and where will you go from here?

Each one of us judged on what we take or leave behind

—or where we place the blame.

Will you be remembered for a future that you wasted

    or the past you overcame?

© Ginny Brannan 2017

Whether good or bad, we all have a past, and a choice to make on what we'd like our future to be.