I Am

I am the master of mediocrity… The commander of inadequacy… The king of the mundane… I am the conqueror of an empty battlefield… I am the guardian of shame… I am the dictator of all the autumn trees… I choose which limbs will first lose their leaves… My dreams are dull, and make no sense… I’m a prisoner of no war tied to a broken fence… My motivation was stolen even though it was free… I am the supreme ruler of my vast, one-inch sea…