Determined (Past Tense)

I choose this path

For I have seen it so often

And pondered it often

Curiously infinite connections

To a seemingly isolated theory

I imagine

For this passion was never repressed

A passion once unknown

A passion slowly inherited

I love

For they loved

And I assumed I should, too

Like monkey see, monkey do

That's all this is

A pretensive personification

Echoing the chanced encounters

An emulative travesty

Mimicing vivacious diversions

I know

For I was told

Once before

And once again

And never the obverse

I deviate

For I have been formed to do so

To hate, rebel, and swagger

And embrace this fateful dagger

The earth has no morals

No syntax or brass tax

It grows, according to the code

The law of the land

With no desire to understand