Sestina on Decision Avoidance

Get energy by wishing for it?
Who we are, what we do,
where we’re going, these all
relate to our attitude?
And the negatives we’d rather avoid,
these are our decisions?

If we do not consciously make decisions
we still somehow structure life by forming it
all the while seeking to avoid
what we would prefer not to do
while knowing with that attitude
we risk not accomplishing the goals at all.

But because we’re not at all
in position to make the decisions
we find in time our attitude
has been supplanted and it
all falls into place so that we do
precisely what we hoped to avoid

So, if we have failed to avoid
That which we felt to be all
wrong, then have we managed to do
what needed doing for the decisions
To come to pass and the energy, it
that we felt caused a wrong attitude,

But was the source of the attitude
A Higher Power we need not avoid
yet a source able to grab hold of it
And bring to pass all
that constituted decisions
we hated but wanted to do

So do what you’re led to do
and the change of attitude
you need to facilitate decisions
you once would have avoided
but now hope to see all
fall into place and so see it

as decisions people do
in the spirit and attitude
you would not avoid, not at all!