What This Either/Or In The Future Brings Poem by RIC BASTASA

Confronted with an either/or
early morning one must choose.

you think that choosing is easy
and a privilege.

one sometimes is given a he or she
but not both
now you have a problem since
sometimes
you want both

do not give me that wrong notion
by all means
you need a peahen and a peacock
a lock and key
a peg and a hole
you cannot just have one
to really be
complete or successful

a race may die and then leave all
behind its tracks
humanity is an endangered virtue
without the yin and yang or both
in one empty hand

now it is either you or her
but not both
that is the human condition
but we can talk and bargain for time
and energy

money talks they say
and the ways and means of fate are always unpredictable
for in the end
it all depends
upon the agreements of hands and mouths
for in this world it is all about you and me and us
depending on how
we really understand the fans of happiness
the forks of despair
the furloughs of chaos and order
we, for most, may conjure, injure and
perjure and then
if we have the courage
all these, endure
what this either/or in the future
brings.