One Step Poem by Sakib Choudhury

Slowly edging forward

Taking two steps back

Racked with indecision

Left standing in deep thought

Thinking about the implications

Of what one step could do

 

I stand there and wait

Waiting for the rush of air

To wash over my face

Ruffling my hair out of place

 

As the time nears

I teeter on the edge

My heartbeat starts to race

As beads of sweat

Begin to line my forehead

 

One step is all it takes

It sounds like a menial task

But so difficult an act

Trying to urge myself forward

But stuck by my own mind

And then all of a sudden

The decision was taken from me