This is written in the context of the ugliness of modern warfare, where population are slaughtered.
What Young Should Be
It should be a state of invincibility,
a guarantee of safety;
believing in the powers within;
I am up to it, all of it.
It should be a view of infinity,
a horizonless plain of time;
space for all the dreams,
and I have those dreams.
It should be painless,
rejoicing in the body’s capacities;
with exhilaraion in movement;
I break into carefree running.
It should be a flood of freedom,
an unstifled education in finding oneself,
revealing many futures;
and I have those choices.
