Wake Up!

Wake Up!

wake up, you're a toddler and you've just taken your first foot steps

from crawling to walking.

Wake up

you've got to catch that school bus

past kindergarten past middle school and high school is just around the corner

Wake up

the child that couldn't walk is now ignoring their phone alarm

the brief fleeting years have been spent on a series of rigged schemes that reek of schisms

schemes of acclaimed educational accolades

Wake up

hopefully you have a job and you're late for it

an endless loop of routinely activities is now established

from crawling to working

look at you now, the toddler that couldn't walk at all

look at you now, a mere quintessence of a fluid

Perhaps When you do awaken

the glimmering stars will have been spread across the ground

Wake up

you died at 20 and you're waiting to be buried maybe at 40 or 60 or 70

maybe when you do awaken

you'll let your dying star shine one last time

Meanwhile, the trumpet blows and a reckoning begins

if the seas were ink and the trees transformed into writing instruments

the glory of Awakening couldn't be written entirely

it's potentiality just like the human brain, is infinite

Wake up!

Reviews

[Mystical Ink]

Been awoke and can't go back to being asleep ever since. This is the cycle is on repeat over and over but why we can't stop it? Because it's the only option given to us to live "physically" until our souls drain. And yes, it died at around 20. People thought that the system is broken when in fact it was built that way.

I enjoyed reading your poetry! Thank you for writing such incredible work of mind.

[SELF]

We must lose ourselves to find ourselves, and I'm glad my words touched a part of you.