What Work Means to Me

After asking people what they think work is

I came to the conclusion that no one knows.

Money is the number one motivation aside from power

But where is the happiness?

When do we actually enjoy life in the now

Rather than living to get ahead of others

So I decided to take this year and think through everything I have been through

To decipher what work is to me

Work to me is saying goodbye to regular routines

People I have known my whole life

To enter in a life that provides a crystal clean start

Work to me is living with a complete stranger

In an unfamiliar room tying us together

Work to me is pretending not to notice the rude remarks that spill behind my back

From a jealous heart and prosperous structure who judge innocent beings

With their ignorant heads

Work to me is saying goodbye to my partner in crime

Choosing temporary happiness that diminished before this years end

Work to me is realizing not everyone has the same intention as me

Being weak will label you as a prey in those shallow hearts of some

Work to me is facing those who destroyed my vision of love

Looking him in the eye, and spitting truth in his face

Finally receiving the closure I longed for all along

Work to me spending nights infested in a textbook

While those around me waste their money on alcohol and uneventful nights

Work to me is saying no to evil poisons

That display short-lived happiness found in a dead end way

Work to me is forcing myself to see strangers in people I thought would never leave

Dodging their waves and smiles as I pretend to never see

Looking down at my feet avoiding another awkward encounter

I’ve become so used to living in this unsocial building

Work to me is shedding my old ways in seeing love as my only way to survive

Settling for childish beings that use words to lure in the weak

Work to me is finding happiness in myself 

Never again will I see myself as beneath

Thanks to this year I now see what real work is

Not money or power or a superficial definition 

But the work to finding strength in hardships

In a life I’m proud to call my own