Avoidance

How can I avoid living life on a shelf

Never getting down and looking about?
Am I supposed to make myself
Live a life that keeps creativity out?

How do I avoid a 9 to 5 job

Which will bore me to death every single day?
Not allowing me to live the life that it robs
And pouring over work that is so dull and gray.

Settling into a plane and monotonous routine

Which saps my spirit, energy, and emotion.
How can I shy away from this inevitable scene
And try to live a life full of devotion?

To myself, my family, and my career

And live with passion, enthusiasm, and love.
Will I be able to have a life that appears
To be everything that I have ever dreamed of?

Or will I fall into the norm

Of doing what I hate

And sadly conform
To a society that I thought was so great