Poems

To Go

To waste many years in studies 

that are but valley of tears,

to endure a labor camp

in order to escape 

with a high school diploma,

to fight for a graduate degree

to build a business

to be a wife

or a mother

or father

to any soul

to squander life 

with housework

to lose decades in mindless jobs,

to suffer long years

for an iota of bliss.