It's Not By Choice

It is not a choice to choose anymore Many forces are driving change It's not by choice that some are wearing Prada Or that some are married It's the constant pressure of modernity That drives the choices we make It's not by choice that some are unemployed Roaming the streets It's easy to think that "we are our choices" Choice is no longer a leading force In the ability to be what you are You may be in school today But tomorrow you might be in the ditch of poverty We have lost our ability to pave our paths And modernity is dictating what we choose Someone chose an iPhone the other day But he knows nothing about it "It is an accessory to have, " he said His choice is not a necessity It's a luxury he cannot afford We are now a people with no choices And it is not by choice that we do not have good choices It's an era of wrong choices It's not a matter of "the wrong choices bringing us to the right places" anymore