How do you find what you truly long for?
“Second star to the right, and straight on ‘til morning”
But morning never comes
All that’s here is strands of bits of the dreams
Of other people
I can’t even see the light at the end of
The tunnel anymore
No sign of Morning
or that light they promise comes
With every tunnel, money back guarantee
I’ve run out of batteries
Trying to keep running down this path
Everyone tells me I should be on
Over there
In the corner of my eye
There’s a bit of light
A spark
Everyone says
It’s not real
It’s not worth it
Stay on this path with us
Become more in line
With the expected
I don’t want to live
A life
Plotted and planned out
Mapped like a known quantity
I plan to live in the spaces
Which decry:
HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
Let everyone around me
Publicly denounce
Who I am
And the paths I chose to take
Because
If I must live
It must be on my terms
HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
And one other
Striving
To just be
More
Than what was written for me
All quotes, including the title, from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan