Orphan

Within a person, whose parents are dead,
lives a being live to life’s potential.
Within a person, where parents still tread,
dies a being’s latent life most artful.

To live truth is to die before your death.
For this, to be one’s own inner parent,
and thus to become master of your breath,
happens only when parents aren’t present.

Chrysalis from inherited habit
to the autonomy of conscious choice
is grasped by an understanding tacit,
that parents’ death is life to your true voice.

The experience of reality
comes with ending parental fantasy.