No matter what our past or present state, we can empower ourselves to live life on our own terms... or remain a victim.

If's and when’s and how’s and what’s
often speak to me.
Why and who present their cause
to shape my destiny.

Focused on the here and now,
I forge my occupation.
Never signing on to work,
a what might have been vocation.

We can all assign our poisoned pasts
a controlling correlation,
or we can choose to line our paths
with self determination.