The Challenge

Do I not know

You are the sole reason for my being,

And for my laughter and flight.

Do you have to remind me time and again

what I have to do?

You will only infuriate me further,

You have already angered me enough.

In your insistence, I can read,

You do not want me to laugh or dream,

Have I no right to laugh or dream?

How can I live otherwise?

There would be no meaning in my life,

My pain will not go away,

Where would I find happiness?

Living is a painfully demanding affair,

Life takes more than it gives;

You made it so, perhaps out of spite,

Because I am trying to be another you;

Why can’t I be you?

Who knows, I could be more creative.

I do not defy you

But you induce fear which I do not like,

That fear makes me rude.

Instead, why not guide me

And show me the right path,

That leads to you.

I have no other goal in sight.