Choices

Um..when you say "life is not a series of chances but choices" you are speaking to a power of mind that transcends the accidents of fate..or so I take it. In a way your poem is Taoist insofar as it speaks to a "going with the flow" of life.on the other hand one could take your "choices over chance" part and conclude you're an idealist(someone who believes that anything is possible if we put our minds to it).so, I find an internal conflict of message in the poem. I'm conflicted about the sobriety, the casual manner with which you speak of "life". I'm of the opinion that whenever someone speaks of life IN GENERAL not only is much necessarily cast aside in so doing but what it really amounts to is a look into the heart and mind OF THE SPEAKER. In short, I'm suspicious of sweeping philosophical statements such as"life is this"or"life is that".

Hey Teresa! First off, I want to say glad to have you in the club! Secondly, I really wanted to say that I enjoyed reading this piece out loud and notice how the words roll off my tongue so easily.

"Learn to live and try to fly
No matter how and drop the why"
This is definitely an empowering poem and what people need to read in order to push on with life no matter how hard it may be. I seldom read poems which try to empower readers and I am glad you chose to write something about it. Nice work!

Nice uplifting moral message in your poem, everyone gets a knock back, but get over it and be the wiser for it, it'll make you stronger!

Ps has went wrong, not is went wrong

Great stuff !