Burning Dreams
I cant help but laugh
at the irony
parents telling you can do anything be anything
but then you get older and the truth is revealed
they want you to be realistic
what happen to being able to do / be anything
You LIER!
And I see so many younger kids reaching for the stars
where is my star?
My milkyway of possibilities
have they crashed and burn......gone away
I wanted to be a singer
I sung and sung and sung
you said I was really good
so I believed if i tried I would be....
years later and here I am
you tell me I'm not good enough
praising some other little girl
am I invisible?
that was my dream but you crushed it
before me wanting me to become a veterinarian
to hell with that
All I want to do now is learn Japanese
live in Japan
while publishing books
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poem by Alizia Sampson
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