Fractured Crystalline Forms

we encounter
patient paths
presented with
past choices
of others

expected to repeat
mistakes enmasse
and forget free
will and
self-identity

instead, i clutch
my fate
& chose neither
possibilities laid
before me

my will forges
admirable avenues
of my own
fresh blades of grass
bend for the first time

undisturbed by the
robotic impressions
of those before me
my oversights will
be my own