OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED

The lessons of youth
before school
before peers
when it’s just your family
wishing you the best
and telling you tales,
those lessons
are lies.

You cannot be anything you want to be.
There are not opportunities unlimited
for every earthling
or even each American.

We can’t all be rock stars
or princesses
or wizards.
Not everything
can go everyone’s way
– not in our system
– or any that actually exists.

There is wont
and there is loneliness.
There is pain
and dissatisfaction,
even for the happiest of folks
though you won’t know that
for you won’t meet them.

The happiest reside in hidden towers
somewhere beyond your domain
and far away.
That is a lesson they never teach
but they should
and will
when I become king.