True Potential

It starts
when we begin
to understand.

We are limited.

Even among
the tiniest
of pleasures.

Stop that.
Don't do that.
Cut that out.
Shut up.
Quit it.

Yes, at first,
we put up a fight,
but eventually,
we give in.

We listen.
We obey.
We follow.
We stop
being ourselves.

We continue this
obedience
until we have
a stroke.

It's a stroke
of luck.

It's our chance
to start over.

Yet, once again,
they try and stop us.

We begin to understand
again.

We lose our ourselves
again.

We pass it on
to our children.

We are all to blame
for this
mistake.

But it's not too late.

We can begin
again
to understand,
there's a different way.

Only then
can we accept
our true
potential.