Do bad decisions feel better if you think it over

Take a while before committing to them

Cover all bases and see no options

Can a bad decision become a good decision

If done with the best of intentions

If dressed up and presented like royalty

If muled over and hypothesized to death?

Do decisions influenced by misleading information

Get a Hail Mary?

Surely a Mea Culpa!

It feels like some bad decisions

Are the gift that keep on giving

They do not assign blame

Nor do they assuage guilt

They assign a scorched earth approach

That stretches their repercussions into the recesses of your being

When these bad decisions affect the children we raise

Shape the adults they become

Mold the partners we chose

Paint the traumas we perpetuate

How do you reach a bunkered soul

Unspook a spooked existence

Reach that soul that keeps clawing at yours

But too afraid to latch on

Does reaching out to that soul

Count as a bad decision?