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Their Box


We are taught to think their way or the wrong way

They tell us to think outside their box

Yet

They keep us on leashes and drag us closer to them

"Be creative!" They say

Yet 

Every answer is either right or wrong

And the farther we wonder from the box

The more we are wrong

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