What It's Like

As rebellious 'Celt' with facial hair after 'choosing' 2006 tour of Scotland on motorcycle.

What It's Like

8/8/11

I have memories of 'no choice'

during those years attending elementary education,

junior high, then finishing high school,

living in family with seven children

where mantra given to us was

'You want something, then work hard,

save your money, while being happy.'

because handouts would not be forthcoming,

this is when employment became necessity

without college being break between worlds

of teen to adult finding career,

along the way weekends symbolized freedom,

getting wild, imbibing in 'virgin experiences'

using drugs, alcohol, with other 'prisoners'

in capitalist system not voted for,

or asked about, if we agreed

with spending life earning almighty dollar,

kept in line through threatening laws,

societal norms youth pushed up against

powered by discontent of suppressed class

unwilling to accept the status quo,

somehow I was lucky to survive

risks taken, rebelling most of time,

still do, believing people can change,

uplifting this world when raising consciousness,

discovering what it's like to choose.