Break Ranks and Run

Scrambling over each other, trying hard to be heard, interrupting, yelling out, being yourself. We knew how to do this when we were two, and three, and four, but they socialized it out of us. So we grew up un-learning our naturalness, un-learning our playfulness, unlearning our potential. Sure, they say, we are going to help you with your potential, but as we fit into the lines, conforming, Winding our real selves into the pretenders others accept, we lose our potential, because it is Not ours anymore, it is your idea of what ours should be. When we break ranks, and run for it, You lament that you cannot control us. Thank goodness you cannot, for the leaders, the ones who have Stood for hundreds and thousands of others have learned to scream their truth from the roof tops, Challenging those who think controlling others is normal. There is nothing more abnormal than that.