tethered
to family
to work
to future
to borders
unlike you
roaming and curious
freelancing and innocently delirious
floating in the ethers of heaven and earth
unlike me
you’re not battered by expectations
I told you I adored your inner rebel, no fucks
given, none taken, one finger to the sky
you’ll find your own dreams, rain or shine
like me
we see the world for what it is
not what it could be, pessimistic
hurt by everyone, most importantly
the face in the mirror sticks it tongue out
laughing at the world through tears
kick up mud from the puddles we create
outcasts yet spectators
of the attempts to be replicated
experiments on us failed
what’s left to do on this trail
