I Wish We were Free: A poem about dreams

I wish we were free

No worries of low grades
 No tensions of failing
 No dreams of coming 1st
 No risks of trailing

When I see around me
 I see friends smiling
 Running around playing football
 Laughing and falling

At the strike of the clock
 they will be gone
 Will have opened Google
 and applied for a job
 That’s their responsibility and I know it’s fair
 But schools are for learning and not a job fair

When I see around me
 I see a sad girl with her head down
 Dragging herself to the class in uptown
 Maybe she wants to play viola
 but because of fear
 and pressure of society
 she is an engineer
 If you don’t follow your passion
 and not in your dream’s company
 there won’t be any Michael’s moonwalk
 or any Beethoven’s symphony
 I wish we were free…

When I see around me
 I see a forest of concrete
 where hearts have turned into stones
 and people fall at other’s feet

I see a dream crushed
 in the eyes of society
 I hear a laugh stifled
 under the weight of responsibility
 I feel a heart sobbing
 because it is not free

Every job is important and nothing means less
 But whatever you choose to do, do without stress.

When I see around me, I see a tree
 standing in the wind, careless and free
 Every leaf in it, an example of unity
 But if you stand against the ideal life,
 you will fall down on the count of three.
 Do you think it’s bad if you are not a part?
 But what about your own wishes and your own art?

When I see around me, I see a fallen leaf
 Rotting away slowly but still in a relief
 that he is providing nutrition & keeping the tree alive
 Doing his job happily before the end of his time.

I looked at him and he smiled at me,
 Said you just see what you want to see,
 I am still a part even though not a part of tree,
 But the good thing is,
 I am happy and I am free…. 🙂

-Wrote after my maths exam under a tree 😛
 10/27/14