Lesley Choyce is one of my favorite poets who is able to encapsulate his sentiments in a playful dance of words. The following quote and poem express his philosophical view of living.
“Your experience of living is divisible by two. There are the things that happen physically to you and there are the things that go on in your head. There’s a powerful relationship between one and the other, of course. Yet much of what happens externally you can’t control, while internally, you may be able to fix your head, if it needs fixing.” Lesley Choyce
I’m Alive, I Believe In Everything
Self. Brotherhood. God. Zeus. Communism.
Capitalism. Buddha. Vinyl records.
Baseball. Ink. Trees. Cures for disease.
Saltwater. Literature. Walking. Waking.
Arguments. Decisions. Ambiguity. Absolutes.
Presence. Absence. Positive and Negative.
Empathy. Apathy. Sympathy and entropy.
Verbs are necessary. So are nouns.
Empty skies. Dark vacuums of night.
Visions. Revisions. Innocence.
I’ve seen All the empty spaces yet to be filled.
I’ve heard All of the sounds that will collect
at the end of the world.
And the silence that follows.
I’m alive, I believe in everything
I’m alive, I believe in it all.
Waves lapping on the shore.
Skies on fire at sunset.
Old men dancing on the streets.
Paradox and possibility.
Sense and sensibility.
Cold logic and half truth.
Final steps and first impressions.
Fools and fine intelligence.
Chaos and clean horizons.
Vague notions and concrete certainty.
Optimism in the face of adversity.
I’m alive, I believe in everything
I’m alive, I believe in it all.
Lesley Choyce
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