Reaching for the Stars

Through restless meanderings

Through entropic choices

Winding our convoluted ways

Through the paths of life.

To find some significance

Some glittery, others staid

Looking through tunnels

Feeling for shortcuts.

Suffering humiliation

Facing failures and rejection

Like busybodies

Playing bumping cars.

Crossing paths,

Making tiny differences

Yet the dissatisfaction

Of not being what we’d like to be.

Superficial mannerisms

Stigmatic reputations

Envious lifestyles

Bitter prices.

Looking at the wrong places.

Working the wrong jobs.

Befriending the wrong “friends”.

Seeing the wrong vision.

Where are we lost?

While reaching for the stars?

Selling our souls

For the seemingly better.

Bargaining with the devil

While reaching for the stars

Bartering our selves

For the seemingly enchanting.

Making irreversible decisions

Beyond the point of no-return

With heavy consequences

And life-changing scenarios.

Lets just wait a while

To truly consider

Our deepest needs

Our innate desires.

Lets just wait a while

To check our compass

Orient our direction

And correct past transgressions.

Lets just wait a while

Before we stand up

Stretch out

And reach for the stars.