Imagine the first
person ever to
step into a boat
and drift away
from the land
In your mind is
the person important?
Popular or famous?
Royalty perhaps?
Or maybe the storied
inventor -- launching
to cheers and adoration?
Or is your imaginary
initiate being punished?
A victim of prejudice or
involuntary test subject?
Are our pioneers brave
or addicted to attention
or do they have no choice?
Who jumps
who falls
and who is
pushed?
It is my dream
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To gently drift
As in a song.
To see those stars
High above me
And know what it is
To really feel free.
I wish for currents,
Not for rotes,
But most of all
To be a boat.