gigondas

growing up
passionate and intelligent

unlike those
who raised you

continuously told to tame
the mad momentum of your mind

to be more
like them

to 'cut your hair
wear these clothes'

to look act feel
nothing like you felt

told that this is what it will be
to be an adult

all the world
a grey compromise

something almost never said
in words

but you remember watching
the silent disintegration of the marriage

and the creeping anxieties indicative
of unfulfilled lives lived like smoke

signals
they were wrong