I once thought to myself:
“Never take advantage of someone,
Even babies grow up.”
Because naivety is a thing abused,
Again I thought:
“If you want a good life,
Shake hands with everyone.”
Because enmity makes life sour,
For this one I was wrong.
I now think to myself:
“Don’t let society own you,
For who they have defined you to be.”
Because you can choose the person you become.
BECOMING is like a search,
That goes on and on,
A search for one’s true self,
A scanning for choicest identity,
A treasure hunt on an undiscovered island,
With such creatures as you have never seen,
Or think of it as a closet search,
For an outfit that befits your very mood.
Everyone can change,
And everything changes,
An unruly child may forsake his ways,
And a vicious creature be tamed,
(Tamed as the Shrew in Shakespeare’s tale),
A free spirit can be a spirit so good,
Yet could also choose to haunt and taunt.
And this I now think:
That society shouldn’t define us too soon,
It could wait- be calm as we become,
Save up those comments in a box,
Lock it away till time is ripe,
Till we can all see in broad daylight-
What we have become after all.
Everything changes,
Even I get amused at this,
With a mind growing inclined at an angle,
Towards a direction that it so pleases,
Sometimes skewed, sometimes not.
We are all becoming,
“What?” You ask.
Even I can’t tell.
Everything changes cause it can.
12.6.18