Sometimes

Copyright © July 23, 2003 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
All rights reserved

The questions never spoken,
but with
a thought,
a look,
a feeling.

The answers never heard,
but in
the heart,
the mind,
the soul.

No one owns another,
with word 
or paper
or ring on finger.

Promises unspoken for no one to hear.
Trust granted without request.

Freedom to do as one might do,
though a price, it must be paid.

Sometimes when you win, you win.
 
Sometimes when you win, you lose.

It all depends on what you might hope to win,
and 
what you are willing to lose.

Sometimes the choice be not yours to make,
though make it you do.
 
Sometimes you give the one who’s choice it was,
not a choice but one to make.

So in the end one will win,
but with every winner,
a loser there must be.

In the end, 
sometimes,
both do lose.