+++ title = "Forging a path into the web of unknown" date = 2018-01-12 resources src = "*O61o9mJWmPm4pxRint1HTw" name = "header thumbnail" [resources.params.meta] creator = "Benjamin Blättler" sameAs = "https://unsplash.com/photos/J40eheaQ_OE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" # also updates caption license = "https://unsplash.com/license" # attribution not required +++ I stand, hesitant

Before me, the path splits

Splits and splits again, dividing a myriad times

The tangled web of choice pulsates gently

A dull glow, alive and breathing

I glance back, a moment

See the path behind me

Threaded in shining silver

A halo of darkened paths around it

Shriveled tendrils of choices not taken

I tear myself away, return to looking forward

Out over the future in all its perfect, fearful uncertainty

Then, a choice is made, my mind and heart unite — and ignite.

I step

I step through

I choose no beaten path before me

I choose no choice

But my own

I choose no path

But my own

Thread winds out beneath me as I step again and again

Glittering gold, not beaten silver

I choose my own way

Through

There is no other