An Ultimatum Is Often

Painting by D. Lane Taylor


an ultimatum is often

an ultimatum is often
delivered with the disguised
voice used in the most
inexperienced and
the most skilled of
hostage situations –
a long and cool
knife, ever sharpening
over a sliver
of bound hope

in not asking me to
choose, you have already
hardened the choices
.

Yi-Ching Lin

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"