Most People…

[I wrote this poem four years ago today, on 12/27/2009.  I just dug it up….and liked it.]

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Most people stay in relationships because they are frightened of being alone…

…yet never acknowledge this to their partners.

Most people have children because they don’t know what else to do with their lives…

…yet are terrified to conceive of what this “what else” might be.

Most people know only a minuscule amount about themselves…

…yet consider themselves to be experts on life.

Most people work jobs they hate…

…yet spend their earnings in ways that make it impossible for them to quit.

Most people don’t know how much they despise their parents…

…yet are much more like their parents than they realize.

Most people have the capacity to undo all this and become real…

…and know this deep down.

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