One yes

This is one of my If you give a mouse a cookie reflections.  We all have our addictions.  Saying yes to one thing, one time, does not mean we have to say yes to the seeming endless things which come after.  This seems a universal thing with friends and clients, and of course, me.  One time I went to a movie theater and, yes, saw two movies when I had only paid for one.  Both movies were ones I wanted to see.  Still, I was emotionally exhausted afterwards.  I should have stopped at one.

I offer one yes.

Many others wait in line

Behind it,

As if buying the ticket

To one movie

Means unlimited access

To them all;

As if one yes

Opens the floodgates

Of possibility

And

I will be stuck

In the theater,

Seeing movie after movie

Until the theater finally closes.

I will be left with my endless refill

Of popcorn

And soda pop.

One yes

Simply one yes.

I forget

I only have to see

The one movie,

Savor one box

Of popcorn,

Then

Go home.