ARCHITECTS OF MY LIFE

 

They read to me stories of great men.

They said, "if you want to be happy, you have to be like them".

They lighted flames on the sides of a path,

and called it mine, without my consent.

They said, "you cannot walk like that".

They said, "you need to talk like this".

They painted a picture of me, donned in the finest, 

hanged it on the walls of their consciousness and called it Tomorrow.

My Tomorrow!

They said if I want to be happy, I have to look like that

I said "my happy friend looks different".

They said "you cannot be like him".

They said "he's good for nothing".

Well I want to be good, for nothing more do I desire,

above laying half naked far away on a lonely beach,

eavesdropping on innuendos sent ashore by the tender waves,

while I wait for the sun to set,

Everyday!