Freedom

I’ve worked for self control
these decades long,
achieving goals, though many slipped
from fingertips, Chimera
never there to snare.
Since as a tyke I first declared,
“I do it for me. Leave me alone!”
freedom meant self-control,
my journey closely held.
So now I meet a bunch of drunks
who years before my birth
rewrote the rules, set self aside,
and taught a simple rule.
Freedom I yearn for cannot come
from all my earnest work.
Instead, to finally reach the goal
I get get free from me.
The Chimera was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing female and male creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of three animals — a lion, a snake and a goat. The term chimera has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe concepts perceived as wildly imaginative or implausible.