The War Of Constant Evolution Poem by Judy Alegria

I want to be who you want to see
different as the two sights may be.

I want to try and go out and buy
what you're selling me.

I strain to remain the same
vision you want to see.

I want to be okay and stay
in the bud rather than sprout
but nature fights against me too
struggling to bring me out.

I wrangle with my desires -
material as some may be.
I tread lightly away from my desires
so they don't catch up to me.

I question this change, again,
and I'm angered by my constant evolution -
wishing to remain constant is in itself a human revolution.

A quarrel, a war, a battle against no opponent but
ones self -
still, outnumbered -
you either lose another or you lose yourself.

By Judy Alegria-Gutierrez
July 30,2010