Locked In a Box

painted in a corner of "cool"

can you my dear?
feel something
as yourself now
can you my dear?
feel anything real now
with og intent
from within
from yourself

as yourself

by yourself

and not depend
on that trend
from that box
that you locked

yourself in

just last year

with that trend
from last year

what ruled your intent

for all of last year

but what is now

at its end

and condemned

can you my dear?

feel anything

of yourself

from within

maybe not. . .

but you're in luck

as anybody

can anywhere

at anytime

reinvent themselves

and everyday

this does happen

and can happen

to anyone

not locked

in a box

with a trend

that died yesterday

or a trend

that will die tomorrow 

Author's Note

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

I read about this teenager. What a ridiculous challenge and a stupid waste of life. Trends, it's fashionable to follow the trends, so many youngsters think. Not if it's going to put you in a box it isn't. And there's plenty of habits that could put teens in a box. Happens all the time. I am not certain whether I fully understood the meaning of your lines, but I am thinking along the lines, that it's not too late to change the way you live. It's not cool to die young like this. Be square and live.

[Davidgeo]

Your understanding is close enough to make your review pretty apt.

Some people, well, lots of people I guess, say that it's better to be cool and dead than alive and uncool... I just don't understand that logic. I almost want to call it an aggregate mental illness disguised as a cultural phenomenon.

[light and ashes]

Sometimes we get locked up in boxes made of different things. Maybe we made them ourselves or maybe we have had them made for us, but we just accept letting others make us feel like we have to live in them, but we have to break out of them and find ourselves outside of them again. You seem to be very in tune with where I am in my life right now. "but you're in luck as anybody
can anywhere
at anytime
reinvent themselves
and everyday
this does happen
and can happen
to anyone"

Again great advice and message

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

i LIKE THIS A LOT I LIKE IT A LOT ESPECIALLY HOW YOU USED THE WORDS CAN U MY DEAR A FEW TIMES
VERY GOOD SORRY ABOUT THE SHOUT ITS MY LAPTOP ITS MUCKING UP SOME TAKE CARE

[Arya]

Good ending, filled with hope and positivity and most important this poem makes us reflect to see if we have originality.

[Davidgeo]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked the ending.

And don't worry, no one is truly original anymore. That's pretty much impossible unless spend all your time underground and away from any kind of social contact.

[Arya]

Ya I guess that is correct, while we keep interacting with others we also get influenced .

[Gee]

Pigeon holing, limiting what you will and won't do by choice just to fit in with folk that ain't worth fitting in with. Can't say I've ever done that or will be doing in the near or distant future.
Hi David hope all is well in paradise

[Davidgeo]

You're a smart man then mr gee.

It's pretty f*****g hot and humid in paradise right now... god damn this global heating.

[Gee]

Tis roadting in the UK too, makes a change from rain and cloud

[Gee]

Roasting...

[Davidgeo]

Don't fret, I assumed that's what you meant.

[Wild Rose]

What a great way to explain how it is
You done want > have no desire to do anything
Dont want to go out > no interest in anything

Not in this world

[Davidgeo]

That's not at all the message I was trying to convey.