Must be fun taking shortcuts
To being who you wish
Society would see you as;
Being highly impressionable
Like a dead fish, swaying where
The strongest current takes you;
Susceptible to societal pitfalls
A slave to peoples’ perceptions.
First line = sarcasm
But I know the addiction
Of wanting to be number one
Feels worth it
When you’re at the “bottom”
But where is the bottom?
There is none
Unless you allow yourself
To believe
That there is one.
There is no-one better
Or worse than you
Unless you’re not sure of yourself
And feel you need to prove
Something to yourself
Or others, but why?
Why exert all that energy
Into proving
Instead of re-directing it all
To living?
– Original-Dante ©2016
Photograph by:Â Northstar76
O.D. 