Assigned Existences
Somewhere
someone has the nerve
to draw on a blank canvas
a sketch of your life; yes, YOUR life,
dictating to you how to live.
The same canvas, then, is made public.
The sketched you now have a broadly-recognized image.
YOU yourself, however, have been silent all along.
Somewhere
another someone
takes it upon him-/herself
to lend you word fragments and poor grammar.
Utterly popular has become that song,
taped on your behalf in absentia.
The recorded you now have a broadly-recognized voice.
YOU yourself, however, have been silent all along.
When, do YOU think, will your existence
be worthy enough to begin to live
YOUR life per a design
created by YOU?
* The poem, “Assigned Existences”, has been published in the June 2024 issue of The Year of the Poet, published by Inner Child Press International.
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