mute compulsion

You are drunk on your volition

No one tells you what to do

and your only mute compulsion is yourself

Both your parents never drank

But you caught up fast in school

where sobriety’s exception to the rule

And you graduated twice

all your family is proud

but the urge to be outside yourself remains

all the many jobs you worked

never paid enough to live

and your prospects of maturity decrease

you will never own a home

but at least you’re not alone

there are million other people

who will never own a home