A poem by R.M. Dolin
Segue to Consequence
We can all look back on
now obvious moments
when key decisions were
handed down like death sentences;
not as the beginning of a journey
but rather the end of a consequence.
These are not
stirringly momentous moments
that arrive in obvious fanfare,
rather,
life altering decisions
built up from
seemingly inconsequential segues
that mostly go unnoticed.
It’s sort of like the way
an innocent drop of rain falls on
a mountain and is joined by
other displaced drops
to eventually form a flow
that slowly meanders down
a watershed in no hurry
to reach its destination.
From chapter 7 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life – The Book of Darwin.” Darwin considers the way one a seemingly inconsequential decision in life can become the segue to defining the rest of your life.
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