School choice

We are embarked upon the college journey once again, this time with our daughter.   I remember my own journey, its twists and turns to arrive at this particular place.  I hope it will be the same for my daughter... in a good way, of course, but with enough of the unforeseen to make it interesting and surprising and yet, of a piece, every step of the way.

We knocked another school

Off the list

Yesterday.

My daughter*s list

Holds familiar

Anomalies.

There is no telling

The futures

The list holds.

I used to be married

To the rare person

Who knew from beginning to end

The process he would follow.

Most everyone else

Near and dear to my heart

Has walked this way,

Then that,

Then found

Himself

Herself

Outside Eden*s gates

Wandering unknown territory

With a bite of fruit

Left to be chewed and swallowed.

I used to be married

To someone who knew

From beginning to end

The exact path

He would follow.

Now I am married

To someone else.

I wouldn*t have it

Any other way.