Heart Lost in it All

Crumpled up paper

Tossed to the basket

Thoughts overwhelm 

Excited and impatient 

I can't mask it

Goals, hopes, dreams, pursuits 

Big words and visions 

All I have to do is follow through

Will I make it? 

Can desire become real?

I have to make it happen

Eat better than those college meals

While they're away from home 

The real world on pause 

I'm figuring out taxes, income and business laws

They'll see

This college dropout 

Is nothing but a socially constructed phrase

Said enough times 

Make us feel like losers

I wonder who's really in the haze

Expectations

Speculations

Motivations

Absurd words

Directing our lives

Definitions abused

Meanings overused 

Heart lost in it all