Word of the day - Datsuzoku
Meaning - an escape from your everyday routine
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Waking up at five
to stay fit
and look young
at an age of thirty one.
Taking a bath
just to wear the same uniform
again, which I wore
yesterday too.
That blue striped t-shirt
and black pants
with a black tie
which is just like
a noose around my neck.
Eggs and bread and milk,
no variation
even when it comes to food.
Exactly at 8:15
my feet are outside
my apartment
and out on the road.
A five minute walk
to the subway
and the same routine there too,
reading newspaper
for the first fourteen stations
and for the next two,
just sit idly.
Working from
nine to five
sitting tightly in a cubicle
with just half hour break
broke something inside me.
I wanted many things in life,
success, money, fame, love
etc etc.
But when I found
that I still have a choice
and a super wish,
I didn’t chose any of this,
I chose one escape from reality.
Just one day
of not waking up at five,
working out, eating boring breakfast,
commuting like a 60 year old.
For one day
I wanted to be twenty one again.
For one day
I wanted to live like before.
For one day,
just one day
I wanted to taste freedom.