Rule Breaker
Rule Breaker
or so the old saw goes,
some folks live their entire lives
without knowing where the road goes.
Do not tell me that I can’t,
because I will have to prove you wrong.
You have no business telling me
how to sing my own true song.
I am the captain of my own fate.
I go which way I will.
Sometime I want to sleep in Rome,
and wake up in Brazil
I’ve made mistakes, I know its true,
and I will make some more.
But they will be my own mistakes,
not the same ones I’ve made before
You say no I can’t, I say yes I can.
I just might kill myself trying.
For living without stretching my wings
is another, slower kind of dying.
Progress is made by the unsatisfied;
the complacent sit safe and sound.
I cannot stop to explain myself -
for I am horizon bound.
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©2009 Christopher Reilley
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I love "for I am horizon bound". And singing one's own true song is another line I identify with. I think young people will have to be this strong and defiant, in order to create the change so needed in this world. I know some of them are trying hard. Glad you joined the conversation, Christopher.
ReplyDeleteI am wondering if this poem is tongue in cheek......in the me me world we are encouraged to do our own thing and be ourselves...not great advice for the herd and we can see the result....books have been written by wise humans (philosophers) in the past warning us however they are not read.
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