Poem: Life

The flip of a coin
Heads or tails
Unknown until it hits the floor
A decision of what life will be like
Each consequential rotation through the air

Heads
And life will be a gem
Sweetbreads and candy canes
Easy streets and never-ending flows of exuberance
Life will be nothing but joy

Tails
And life will know no goodness
Trashcans and green flies
A cornucopia of sorrow and poor choices
Life will be nothing

Nothing

A flip of a coin does not life make
Not exactly anyway
There are more than two sides
Two deciding factors
That lead one to the life one knows

And is it good or bad that life is multi-faceted
Multi-pathed
Multi-everything
Multi-put whatever you want here to fill in your blanks
It’s your life

A string of building blocks
That no one knows
Not even the God of the Gaps
Give but a fleeting glimpse of happenings
To come

Flip the coin
Take the chance
Heads or tails
Flip flip flip
It’s your life to live however you wish

Or is it?