Beyond
I'm rather disenchanted with the whole thing
The promises- fact check: the culmination of another's dream
That was never mine
I might have had my own thoughts
But I opened my mouth, and you gagged me with your own inhibitions and ambitions
All you could not, would not try
Were to now be my success stories
What's the saying? Those born in a house on fire will think the whole world is aflame? You were the house on fire into which I was born. And I believed. I believed the whole world burned.
But how wrong I was. The world is calm, only littered with patches of fire.
That was all I needed.
I became aware of the gag you had shoved in me the first time I opened my mouth, and I tore it out.
What joy there is in recognizing another's dreams are not yours
What joy there is in recognizing your own dreams
And working towards the pursuit of those dreams and those dreams alone
What joy there is to be found, if only we could look beyond what we were born into
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