PEER PRESSURE

Tell the child to sleep soundly
or wake up to scream loudly

Today she might want to dance wildly because you told her too
or wear glasses and read a book because the boy she likes loves it.

Where does her will ends?
and where do their will over hers begin?

do we not surrender to others will good or not?
are we even not controlled by the Universes will
in entirety ?

Does this child really know freedom freely?

T A M I L O R E.

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CONSIDER YOURSELF A TREE

Consider yourself a tree
With its root
Firmly connected
To that of the other
So that when there’s a push
Or a pull
Or a giving out
Or a falling of fruits
Or a sprouting of leaves
Or a drought
To help flowers not bloom
And branches not stretch
In a season
Or the other
You go along
Like the other
Flowers not blooming
And branches not stretched
For the comfort
Of a peaceful coexistence
In this whole ‘nother realm
Of eternity

And for how hard it is
For a tree
To take off its root
Joined to the other
Deep in a soil
Of communalism
Commensalism
Or parasitism
So it might be
To break off
From the pressures of those
Who hold you together
In your minds’ eye
In a good way
Or the other

/XIII/

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TO OR NOT TO

Should I go in this journey?
The one written with the ink of youth?
It has my friends on board
Should I board this bus?

This bus
That takes all to farther land
Whether or not we take blessings from mother’s hand

Should I take this path?
With others in the movie called life
Should I join this act?

– Reword

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TO OR NOT TO

Its easy to want to be like a part
Of the wind or the sea
When you’re around it
But that don’t make it right to jump the cliff
When you’re on it
And throw away any good thing you own to belong, when you have everything to stand out
You have everything to be called beautiful and unique
Don’t be less to feel greater.

–Adilah