When you can’t have what you want, you learn to want what you have.
4/10/2018
For a long time I’ve been drowning
A slow dance of controlled chaos
As these lungs fail
My arms chained
But something is changing in me
With every moment I spend
My head beneath the surface
The more I resemble
A creature of the sea
And life floods through me
There was a time it looked as though
I may never reach the surface
I would either drown or change
To something other then fully human
But I feel myself
Floating steadily to the surface
And I know I’ll make it out
Alive and human
Before the cruel sea takes me
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This one is about becoming institutionalized which was a very real problem I was facing. Many do so much time that they learn to love jail and some even prefer it to the outside. I was changing into a ‘lifer’ and too much more time ‘under the surface’ on the inside and I would never fear jail enough to stay out and keep my life on track.
Thank god I made it out before I was too far gone for a normal life.
When you can’t have what you want, you learn to want what you have.
High Seas Clothing 
Very eloquently and enigmatically crafted well versed philosophical poem. I too have actually learned that there are two kinds of people. Those who get what they want and those who want what they get. My own circumstances have forced me to want what I get and from observation it seems to me to be the better part of the two in the long run.
Very well done.
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