Maybe

By Phoebe Red

Maybe I should be a doctor

Take a walk in prestige's hallowed halls, 'cause

Maybe it'll appeal to me to

Hang a few diplomas on my walls

Out of all the paths I could have chosen

I considered all of them but two

Wonder if it's such a crime to follow

The path of least resistance? least that i can do.

It seems to me to be a bit fallacious

To take consensus, turn it on its head

Just because the masses they have spoken

Go exactly 'gainst all that they have said

But okay maybe I should try to

Do what I actually want to do?

But what do I want? I don't know?

I'm not sure where I want to go.

What is a dream?

A few mottled bits of light

Not enough to shut out the night no listen

I think I know what I'm saying really?

It's no use following whims of society

They say look a deal you can't refuse

Come to us you're being silly

Maybe you should just stop talking

you're not even making any sense

Follow your dreams

I don't know why

Just work hard

It sounds like a lie

You can do

Whatever you want

No you can't

follow me, not you.

Yeah, well, okay

You're making a mistake

Maybe you should think

About the risks you will take

and maybe it's a bad idea

To listen to society,

But maybe there's a grain of truth

Inside the voices sea!

Can you jump in the sea without drowning?

Listen to the voices whisper

Riptide pull you out, a drifter

You live on but lost your laughter

Growing up is somewhat hard

No one survives without being marred

Every time you're forced to choose

You always feel you're doomed to lose

You want to carve a path for yourself

Fight against the trend of everyone else

But then you stop to think and…

Is it truly quite so bad 

To let go and sink below

Decide to be a doctor?

WRITTEN NOVEMBER 14, 2014