If You Want To View Paradise

Expectation
is
the death
of imagination

maybe the fight is good
all our
stubborn tics
that we cling to
like a woolen blanket
like a child
with a boundless imagination

maybe it's our parents faults
(psychologist's wallets
need this
to be true)
or the teachers
in the failing schools
where expectation is
the only form
of acceptable knowledge

or the lovers
we bend our will to
freely, we think
until we're operating
beyond any semblance
of what we once were,
or thought we were

it's not compromise that
brings peace
it's the acceptance that
our microscopic individualities
are not to be
hammered out mercilessly
in the name
of expectation

so,
work harder

expectation
is
the death
of
imagination

-J