Protection

Protection is sacrifice

it’s waking up early

in the morning

when you’d rather dream

about that guy

you check out

on Instagram

every few days

it’s not obsession

just obsessed

at that moment

Protection is a drill

that thing you do

over and over and over again

because you never do it

right

and there is someone who

does it better than you

and they even have

their own reality show

or maybe they don’t do it better

but everyone believes it

so it doesn’t matter what you can do

Protection is love

loving yourself

when at almost every moment

you get a really paranoid

feeling that

your life

is so boring

and you could be doing something

greater

but you’d rather

go eat a pepperoni pizza

Protection is means

having 3 jobs

one of which you don’t tell

anyone

about

because it has absolutely nothing

to do with any of your interests

you just want the cash

so you don’t waste most of your time

thinking about

not having any money

Protection is freedom

freedom to leave

whenever you want

even though you might not

but just having the thought

and letting your mind

wander about that reality

is enough…. maybe

Protection is laughter

that at the beginning

of the day

you don’t pressure yourself

to be the best

but you do pressure yourself

to get through it

Protection is real

because without it

when you fall down

and look around

and see that everyone is

very busy protecting themselves

you realize that all that they said

they cared about

really only involved themselves.