overlay
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many of our efforts
end up going wayward
as attempts to saddle life
with an overlay
or some template
sought to be fit upon life
like a tattered straightjacket
designed to restrain,
even choke off wayward impulses;
said to be for the wearer’s safety.
but life –
that evanescent,
freedom-loving, slippery eel
of an inhale & exhalate
does not well abide
constraints on naturally derived ease
or mundane necessities
in the name of tradition, vanity,
mere peer pressure…
best we heed the self-evident;
remain in our lane,
expend effort to become
our very best self & leave life be;
simply that we learn to live it well.
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