Choices

On the Pont de l’Europe by Gustave Caillebotte, public domain. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Asked and Answered

“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

It is a question, I suppose.

Three choices: what to choose of those.

I don’t think I’ll reply too fast.

The implications might well last.

So, beautiful.  Would that I’d see

a thing divine.  Could that be me?

And clever.  Let me but contrast

the implications.  Might well last.

I think I’m good, ‘though angel-ish?

I doubt it.  Should that be my wish?

I fear I’m at a strong impasse.
Thus, I won’t choose just one, at last.

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The form is Kyrielle.  The poem was inspired by the Wednesday Poetic Asides' prompt of 'At Last.'