It Is A Daily Routine Poem by RIC BASTASA

waking up
washing a face
and putting on our names

we walk straight
we see other people's eyes
we want to be
just ourselves

in the most honest way
we can

yet we are blocked
by this routine

and she tells you
do you want to tell the truth
and suffer the consequences?

dare or die,
be insignificant

make a difference
and dissolve

like the rest who like fireflies carried
the fire on their backs

one night
they burned the flowers and spread a fire on the trees

the following day
some worms got overfed and slept and then laughed
the hardest