Want vs. Should

Flighty heart
Insatiable, thirsts for adventure;
Never content,
To just be, and soak in
What is good, and what is Real.

Instead, looks without.
Desires what I will not let it have,
I am aware of its masochism.

And because I know:
Ignorance grants exoticity;
Distance imparts charm.

I console, and remind it
That the forks in the road are too far
In the past.

But it won’t cease struggling.

The more I build walls, the more it complains
Like a canary in a cage
Thrashes more, the more it’s chained.

In trying to overreach,
Will fall.
Will ruin Reality in pursuit of Fantasy.
Will ruin me.

…

Let logic wash over you,
And wrap you in a coldly comforting embrace
Preaching compromise.