Given the choice

Given the choice

Where do you sit?

In meetings, on planes, at home

Or - in the waiting room

The floor is yours

To walk across

A field of glass 

A bed of moss

It’s hard this walk

Where to go?

To follow, lead or copy

Walk fast or slow?

I’ll sit at the back

Someone thinks out loud

I’ll sit at the front

Someone else thinks inside

I’ll sit with my friends

I’ll sit where I’m told

But in the end

We all sit down

The choosing done

I can’t recall

A choice of seats making much difference

(The poems from the teachers are coming in thick and fast. But who wrote this one?... And, of course, why do you sit where you sit?)