This is not a poem - it's a sort of - it's about me actually. Or not completely about me, because I still try to be very cool sometimes, but it's about the people who don't give in to advertising ideals, who don't think (anymore), that being cool means rebelling, not listening to their parents, living separately, adventure-sporting - all that jazz. This is about the slowly dwindling population who are just trying to live their lives the best way they know how.
(Of course, I'm not judging adventure-sporters. If you've found peace on that mountain, (or hanging upside-down from it) then good for you).
Sensibly Proceed
I’m not a product of advertising.
I’m not the photocopy of some movie ideal
I don’t think peace is something you find
After a long drive, at the perfect spot
Where a mountain and river meet.
I’m sure that place is really beautiful
But my peace comes from within
I don’t “belong to the road”.
I belong to the people who travel with me
I don’t “belong just to me”
I belong to my friends, to my family.
I don’t break the rules
I follow them – they make sense.
I don’t “believe in me”
I believe in religion.
I won’t follow something just because
It’s damn bloody cool.
The life that’s been given to me,
I try to make it work.
I try to be responsible for the people I love.
I don’t “make my own destiny”
My destiny’s a mix of what’s written
And my decisions based on what people want,
And what I want, and how much I love said people,
And what seems like the right thing to do.
My destiny’s connected to the people around me.
Society might not always get it right,
But however I choose to live my life,
I invariably become part of society.
What remains to choose is which.
I don’t look for happiness.
I create it – for myself and for the people I live with, and
meet, and know.
I belong to the world, and I know, and I understand, and I accept
that
With every fiber of my being.
When you find your barriers,
When you know limits,
That’s when you know the true meaning of freedom.
That’s when you can start exploring
When you know you’re never alone.
When you know you belong.
You’re complete.
