[Content Warning] Fear

Goddess be thanked
I'm passed those days
those desperate days
of trying to prove I'm
the same as society decrees.
They're not.
They're trying to prove
they're real men
- seem real stupid
and real obnoxious
to older me;
or
they're trying to prove
they're real women
- soft, stereotypical
loving and wanting kids
needing to have
the first base
of being
hooked up
- or hitched.

The years of soul searching
are yet to come;
the years of regret
for follies past
with prices then present,
yet to haunt.
And all for fear
of being different,
of maybe being
a loner - single, e'en;
or
child-free,
unambitious.
All for naught
naught but
the parlous price
that too too many
have to pay.

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2012 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit, of course :)