"Free Will pt.2"

Internally most powerfully,
but informed by sensation as well
we live our lives in tidal waves,
or walking trickling streams,
or steeped in wells, or wade
down riverbanks, or give up
presently, and sink a while
or drown in mirey bogs
of influence.

But will we push against
or go with flows we do
or do not sense, that buoy up
or carry us, or suck us down?
We will
indeed.
And freely choose - including
in our choice, the flows
that surge or cataract or tease
- each force we do and do not know, or notice
helps us choose with ease,
or agonize, deliberate
in only one of many ways
we are directed strong and weak,
as we see fit

to ford the mix and with our pick,
uncomplicate.

But mostly one, to override
and countermand: the way we seek.
The world of light and currents,
wave and rock and wake and sleep did not
convene to choose for you a plan, except
a sample representative of each and all
that you've been gathering in
and going through, that meets in you:

in congress hall

where you preside, the Anarch
- and you always have. You chose them all. You chose
the influence you took, and sorted
everything that moves in you,
and moves you to a closer look,
for well and good,
or wrong and bad.

One's single biggest influence
is Will. Informed by every view,
and guided by experience: which you
yourself betook you to, and wondered why,

because you knew.