see
opposite effect
focus                 focus
focus                 you
don’t need that
if you remove
any sign of
functionality
how do i know
this                   want
this                   life
what it is now
look

fascinating,
i see me in you.
but bothersome me
is what makes others hesitant,
damage their opinion of i.
yet i see me in you, for once
me is okay, for once
i don’t **** heads with me,
only with you.

the light in your eyes burns
like mine, and we are okay burning,
and i am okay seeing
just me with you.

is it you that i can have
like solitary days
where i don’t have to
face the me of the world?
when i take you, i just face
me with you.

what is a tradition to the youth?
to the land as old as
when we found it,

we have stated the establishment
just as old as
when we signed it,

what is a structure to the wild ones?
what is this deception, this diversion
of what was always there to us?

why do they say they
were always there, how can they say
we were always them?

what is containment
to the persistent rebellion
of the non traditional existence?

In tradition, a home unsheltered
a house, not homely,
we only embrace
what we had before

Conserve the ideas of
those allowed to be louder,
those who led us to the articles
of glorious landmines

Every day, we don’t think about it
we just want them to go
every day, hundreds a day
face the foundational guilt.

it’s not much
i mean. it is

i want it to be done already.
i guess that’s just my boredom talking,

it’s just my dissatisfaction
with anything presented to me.

blankly, i thought it all year
next day next day next day next

oh it’s done and
i guess i can’t savor the moment.

is she crying?
okay

what the **** do i want?
where do i want to be but this?

directionless, i can’t quite seem to notice
there are no signs left.

i guess i will pave my own dirt path
like big girls do.

here leads to the rest of
your life, okay

before you understand meaning,
you understand hunger and hurt.
you understand family and companionship.
rain and sun,
cold and hot,
tired and energized,
pain and pleasure,
everything is right here.

before you learn how to chase time,
you learn how to survive,
how to smile and cry.
when something is there,
when something is gone,
it’s forever.

before you find out you can look back,
you look straight ahead.
your mind has no clouds.
now your eyes are searching for more,
now it must be complicated,
now we’re all dizzy and blind.

do you know how to survive?

this poem is too simple,
i think it needs more.

Does it hurt
when the nature around you
beckons

and you know it all
to be connected

yet you feel so foreign
like the atoms repel you

you are not a ghost like you think