Everything Happens For a Reason

By Natoxicating

Everything happens for a reason

That's what I've been told

Sometimes I think that that's the case

Sometimes I'm not so sold

The reasons why we do things

Are what we need to see

The reason why things happen

Usually start with me

A twist of fate from course maintained

Over which you have no power

Those things happen, I'll admit

But just not every hour

More likely there's a choice to make

Perhaps you see a sign

Then you decide a course to take

And choose to walk a line

Then what happens on that path

Is mostly up to you

With friends and neighbors and perfect strangers

Telling you what to do

But in the final count, my friend

That choice is up to you

The real reason that things happen

Is because you choose them to

The choices sometimes aren't so clear

There's many shades of grey

But listen to your heart, my dear

For it helps light the way

A choice for this, a choice for that

A choice for not at all

A chance for you to take a chance

Is not by chance at all

Everything happens for a reason

My friends all love to say

Sometimes that can be true, I guess

In it's own peculiar way

But if we want to talk honestly

About the way things go

The reason your life is your life

Is because you made it so

Thanking fate or placing blame

Can tend you for a while

But soon there'll be a choice to make

And that should make you smile

The reason things happen, you should know

Is no great mystery

The life you live's the one you make

You're who you choose to be