Trapped in Someone Else’s Dream

Jhon Mark Mercado
The LATHE Online
Published in
1 min readSep 2, 2020

Limerick

Artwork by Jerome Dimaano

My heart stopped beating when I was thirteen.
The day I asked myself “what does life mean,”
I thought of what I really wanted.
Then I realized, I’m taking my life for granted
by achieving someone else’s dream.

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