Our culture now stands on the unwritten laws
the faults and flaws, failures, fears
that’s how we all got here
we let them go too far
we are managed and manipulated
made performers
baited to be puppets on strings
playing roles in scenes
that were created
but never for us
we must refuse
to let them choose
how we do our lives
we can only lose then scream in agony
if we can never say we didn’t try
don’t lie, don’t minimize, don’t say it’s extreme
for it’s a dream
for the future
a hope that one day soon there will be a moment
where the wind isn’t against our backs
where we won’t have to row and paddle and fight
instead just relax and sail and exhale and float
and know
that the strings have drown in the water
‘cause we trusted ourselves enough
to let them us let go