Wrong Way (January day 23)

you are doing it the wrong way.

going into today thinking you know how to do it.

you know all of the secrets in all of the valleys.

 

you can pick us all up

and put us in your pockets.

but we will crawl out.

 

you are running this race the wrong way.

I can tell you where the footsteps are

but they will not all fit your shoes.

 

sometimes I am following those footsteps

and the world gets too big.

I start choking

on the opposite of suffocation.

so I turn back.

not that this way doesn’t have a happy ending

it is just not the ending for me.

 

tell me not to become who I am.

how can you stop me?

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Written 1/23/21

Wrong way

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