FIRST THING I READ THIS MORNING

from "Running on Empty" by Charles Bukowski

...do you see
now that you see that
everything they told us
was wrong?

the elephant caught
like that
and caged
like that?

the way they tricked us
and caged us too?

...what you do see is that
what mattered most
doesn't matter so much
anymore 

Amazing poem. i've been noticing lately that many of the things that used to matter so much to me, don't matter all that much anymore. I've grown. And I've changed. And I'm finding myself in a new self that I need to adapt to. Confused? Me too.