Make Your Choices – Most Likely Written December 1993 (Aged 18)

Make Your Choices

You can do what you like
as long as you think it is right.
You can play the fame game.
You can discover your mind
and gently go insane.
Take your path.
Make your choices.
Learn to turn off the voices
plaguing your psychic mind.
Win at everything you do;
it is up to you.

Stumbling in the dark,
eyes welded shut,
that is how too many go on.
Do not wait too long
for things to run to you;
run to them, grab them while you can,
because later on you will not understand.

Trees in the dark
become the obstacles in your path.
It is only what you want to see.
It does not have to last.
You can have the last laugh
if you get on with the task.
No good feeling down;
look around, feeling sorry for yourself.

James Garratt – December 1993

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