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To The Sky
There is a question we are all asked
Innocent, but increasingly
Important
It is fastened to my mind
Festering
Fervent
Longing for the answer
Until then,
I am tethered,
oppressed by the blank line
of this question
Truth is,
I don’t understand
Individuals who are already on the
clear highway
While I wander through the fog
Searching
How can you dedicate your
life
to one job?
I imagine a perpetual cycle of
repeat, rewind, replay
Like an old gramophone
Destined to play the same tune
But nothing more
A job may be worse than school
Ironic, isn’t it?
School is a regime
Learn this, learn that
Pass tests, earn grades
Graduate.
Wait.
What now?
Life slows down...
Lagging, like a butterfly
emerging from her chrysalis
facing a wide,
wide
world.
For now,
it treads the air current
with a choice to make
Go with the flow
or
Carve your own path?
Let me float for a bit
and think
Because I don’t want to be
what other people tell me
I wish to flee,
to be free of this hindrance
and find my purpose
How I fit into the
puzzleboard of this world.
Then I can finally
take to the sky
And with each butterfly wingbeat
setting off a force which affects
you and I.
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