Life Inside The Box
A Poem
I’ve always been an outside-of-the-box thinker,
one that invents new ways of doing old things
because the stench of those languid mechanisms
are confusing and unworldly to a person like me
But I prefer to live life inside of the box
because it’s safer in here, this glass bubble
holding my air, my things, and my emotions
so no one can try to commingle them
Life inside the box is exceptionally calm
because no one can adjust the temperature
or change any of my channels of interest
or disrupt this flow state that I am always in
But I will say it’s a bit static and flatlined in here
Some might even call it overwhelmingly boring
compared to their skydiving and parties with people
overflowing with an abundance of personal freedom
I sometimes try to live outside of the box,
but I always come back to a simple fact
My environment is critical to my happiness
and my home is inside this box
© Jonathan Greene 2024
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