I grow tired of hearing, ‘let things be’
or ‘it’s the way things go’. At most, to live
truly and freely, it could not be a fleeting
dream, to when my body sleeps. My dreams
are meant to be touched, like one’s own
soulmate. Poets should not write such things,
nor as tenors should sing songs of heartbreak.
I live here too. Oh Langston, I do not act
just to get through and survive, I wish not to
be a raisin that dries up in the sun. Life, I live
here too, just as much as you do.
(Knowledge Variable)