if you're fighting for a cause, a belief, or your own survival?
we aren't just running through your streets,
swimming in your private pools,
or sleeping on your rooftops to keep our physical bodies intact
we're fighting a spiritual war
the coast called us by name and we answered
we packed our bags and prayed to the gods above
that we might just make it to the other side of enlightenment
only now have i learned that i don't know anything.
i know nothing
and that's what i will tell them when they ask
"why did you leave it all behind?"
because we knew that there was more...
than the lives we had been taught to live
when no excuses exist than absolute freedom can.
when the comforts of a permanent residence,
a weekly paycheck,
and a worthless, governmental-controlled curriculum based education
can be thrown out the window,
left behind without a second thought,
than you can experience a freedom truer than anything you have ever known.
without the schedules of a hectic, work-centered life
without constant glances at the clock
without stress over matters of money
without anything to hold you back
without convenience to keep you "content" and harmless
we can realize that america isn't the land of the free
it's the home of the liars and the lied to
when some hear these words, they will claim that we have it easy in comparison
that we have no right to complain or to take our lives into our own hands
these are the poorest victims that have bought into the fiction of the richest story-tellers
no one is more qualified than we are to tell us what our lives will be.
the four of us have been on the road for five days
we've begun to find ourselves
amidst the chaos of everyday life
amidst the silence of our individual reflection
with a little over two hundred miles behind us
we've woken up on rooftops, underneath the stars
we've been chased out of businesses
we've watched the sunrise from the shore
we've stuffed our pockets full with just enough to get by
we've learned more about life than ever before
we're students of the universe
life has so much to teach us yet
♥ D.C.G.P
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