Graduation...

Lost in adolescence he veered off track, lured in by the easiness of contentment and the facade of "it should be handed to him". The quick sand nature of complacency drug his slump on longer than he was willing to acknowledge.... Time passes and the realization of the vastness of opportunities he had watched flow by caught his attention and imagination...  He awoke from a dream and saw that he was the same boy he was yesterday, nauseated from the stench of underachievement he took a step towards the window as he had been doing, listening to the birds sing the same happy tunes and the voices that always told him of his actual worth... But he turns his back again to walk away as he always has, but not back to the bed. To the door he heads not knowing what life holds beyond that threshold of comfortability.... Timorous he walks into the smokescreen of uncertainty ready to go toe to toe with whatever steps in his ring, conquering all the things he once doubted he could stand up against, letting things go that he felt was cemented in him.... He now knows that possibilities only go as far as one is willing to "dream"... Sheds his tears, rids himself of pettiness and engulfs his thoughts with positivity..... He is a man.... He is ready...