"Controlled" Poem
Controlled
What choices did you make?
What paths did you choose?
2 questions that seem so vague
But was it you who made it through?
Did your parents choose your education?
I mean they called your hard work imagination, and called your homework dedication.
Then they call their desires your aspiration
Can we really call that determination?
If you ever have a dream, they have reasons to shame it
If you ever reach success, you won't have the right to claim it
If you ever taste defeat, they are going to frame it
They think it's called parenting but if it's failure they'll replace it
If it's depression it's a phase, if it's a road then it's a maze
If it's failure it remains, but if it's success you get a raise
And that raise doesn't involve having your own ways
It involves more "advice", "harsh parenting", and all those clichés
Stop!!! Run away right now, go live your dream
If you think you're currently living it then that's what it seems
What they deem as a dream became your theme as you see
So congrats, you're a parent, now go raise you a machine
