Ordinary

People
the masses
shapers of society,
textured, complex
crippled by failures of the past,
revitalized by our faith in the future.
proudly publicizing lucra:ve life choices,
masquerading

as we mop up the messes of our mistakes.
what you see is what
we want you to believe you get.
true inten:ons, authen:c emo:ons,
all cloaked in a charade
we painstakingly polish the surface, hoping to compensate
for the termites of self doubt that bore deep into our souls
fragile, vulnerable
striving to dene the indenite,
to categorize the complexi:es of our reality that,

no ma?er how hard we try,
will never t into that box under the bed
awed, but not fatally
the imperfec:ons we hide,

the nagging conscience

the indecision, self-sacrice, dedica:on
the joy, jealously, greed, guilt, love, loathing, hardship, hope, pain, peace of mind,

our mortality, our resilience
all what makes us
human

were stronger than we think