April #23

Isn't it awful when people
step out of being who they should,
and turn into feeling, thinking machines?
Instead of neatly fitting into the boxes we've made
they reach outside into the wild world
and traipse along by themselves,
forming their own reality,
utterly ignoring what we want theirs to be.
Parents are lovers,
and so are children -
something neither wants
to be true of the other.
When was the first time
you realized
your teacher didn't live at school?
Your mother had obligations
to others than you?
We are autonomous,
and it is hard to believe
that anyone else is.
But reality is skewed, and
none of us
can fit any one mold,
even should we try.
We must be careful,
not to upset others' visions
when we do it.