I’ve waited so many years
for nothing
and
everything

all anyone can ever say is
“it’ll get better later”
or
“it’s for your future”
or
“tough luck, kid”

well **** that

you don’t have to wait to enjoy life
why wait till your old
when everything is dull
and you can’t do half
of what you once could

the only virtue we teach the children is waiting
and it has confused them and made them think
there’s nothing else to life

some cope by saying “**** the system”
and run down the dead-end to self-destruction

others never deal with it
going their whole lives
unhappy and unfulfilled
and thinking the whole
time that that’s the only
way things could be

but I say to you
that is not the way!

do not consume yourself
because you’ve never been allowed to

do not hold yourself back
because you’ve never thought you couldn’t

the whole world is out there somewhere
and that whole, wide, wonderful,
wild world is calling to you and
saying

“come!
come and get me!
I have everything you’ve ever wanted!
and if you’re smart,
you can have it all!
no strings
attached!”