Trapped in thy own head?

The society hasn’t trapped you

Anymore than you have trapped yourself

In your own head

And if you’ve let society

dominate your thoughts

and take away your peace of mind

maybe it’s time to rethink

your way-

out of it

If you’ve given more power to their views

than your own wings

If you’ve traded their beliefs for yours

if you’ve let their confusion

wash away your ounces of clarity-

You’ve got to let go child

Of your illusion of perfection

because alas! they know what they know

And they don’t know much either

But you thought so.

You thought so as a child

You thought they had it all figured out

And they thought so too

When they claimed the Sun spun around the Earth

in circles

or that the Earth was probably flat

Like a plate maybe.

Your brain circled too

jumbling the narrative

that was spoon-fed into your neurons

and dissolved into your veins

until you couldn’t make out

red from blue

black from white

real from fiction

And you choked, nonplussed

on the piles of trash around you

on the screeching noise

the cacophony of distress

of random conflicting chatter

Gossips about how ‘naive’ you are

to think they were right

when all they knew was no better.