I don't want to be an object
of course, but human, a subject
not completely free perhaps
but also not in the hell
of other people's judgment
because I don't ignore
that I am an individual we
an individual love
that falls short
sometimes individual cruel
self-interest, short-sighted
by built-in blinkers
against my nervous fear
of the purgatory of the failures
of other people and myself
(Whoever wants more freedom
and does leave the herd, will know
to be in hell right then)