Complete control

Do we have free will? If so, can we handle the responsibility to do the right thing? Can we decide for ourselves what the right thing is and do it, or are we too weak?

 

When stubbing out my last cigarette I

Broke the cracked ashtray I inherited

From my old tenants - a sign from on high

That it’s high time I quit this bad habit

Although I’m not religious maybe it

Is some vague universal consciousness

Transmitting a message just for me - quit!

Or is it all in my mind? Do I bless

Myself when I pray, hope, decide or guess

What’s best to do, and then when I apply

Myself to do it, do I have complete

Command and control to achieve success

Or just a mess? Responsibility

Of such magnitude’s often avoided

Author's Note

A sonnet about smoking, life, death - no, not death, but maybe self-induced illness leading to death - the universe and everything...

Reviews

[Wordcrafter]

Good work again Tony...

[Tony]

This is great. It is a well stated point of view, left wide open for the Devil's advocate:
Let me ask you this, Tony: Why quit? Do you hate it? Then yes, quit!
Or are your views perverted by media, public outcry and the medical community?
If you treasure your Smokes, and find poetic beauty in the cracked ashtray, which may very well be the case, then why make changes to YOUR life because of trivial entities such as the above?