Imagine waking up one day
realizing
the life you thought you were living,
turned out to be about
as thriving
had you spent the past twenty years of it sleeping.
Waking up, excited to wake up.
A feeling
unknowingly taken for granted by many
unaware there are people
who may never know what a feeling like that
even feels like.
Blinded,
an understatement
when doing whatever you possibly can
to thrive in a world,
that in reality -
you were barely surviving from drowning in.
But then you wake up.
Waking to find
those years you prayed to stop dragging
long gone,
and what little left
flying right by you far too fast.
So you make the most of it,
living in fast forward,
doing your best to make up,
only to discover
those years you basically slept through
left you tainted.
The rest of what should be the best of it
spent battling
perceptions,
undoing undoable labels.
Finding yourself the one surrounded by crazy.
Welcome to reality I guess.
Wish I could say it's a better position to be in,
but from this seat
all I see -
far too many perceptions ingrained,
leaving me
forever stained.
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