Freedom

I've worked for self control

these decades long,

achieving goals, though many slipped

from fingertips, Chimera

never there to snare.

Since as a tyke I first declared,

"I do it for me. Leave me alone!"

freedom meant self-control,

my journey closely held.

So now I meet a bunch of drunks

who years before my birth

rewrote the rules, set self aside,

and taught a simple rule.

Freedom I yearn for cannot come

from all my earnest work.

Instead, to finally reach the goal

I get get free from me.

The Chimera was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing female and male creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of three animals — a lion, a snake and a goat. The term chimera has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe concepts perceived as wildly imaginative or implausible.