All Your Bad Decisions

If you line up all your bad decisions
They can stretch around your lies
Like a boa constrictor
Around a baby zebra

Spent your whole life
Wondering
If you were going to be
The hero
Or the villain
Of your story

Not realizing
You were both

Never had a bad enough addiction
To get you fired
Or disgraced
Or intervened with

Maybe it would have been better for you
If you had

Maybe she could have stayed
If she thought something would cure you

Do you even remember
Which screw-up
Made up her mind?

Was it the house you were going to build
Or the book you were going to write
Maybe the ring you were going to buy

Will you ever see
That all your bad decisions
All lined up in front of you

Aren't even worth half of one mistake
Compared to what you didn't do