Help me with the theme of this poem?what is the poem about?

Question

I walk down the street unconsciously
listening to sounds of life.

In this city I'm a stranger and in
mine I'm uninvented guest.

For so long, I have a flower of this existence
afraid to plant it
strange land this is you ask
years of walking on a 2 left no heart
like a ghost

like a phantom
I gave the people what they wanted
Learning for any self a mask and a
paper heart

And i'm tired
I'm tired wanting answers to questions not asked of

So i walk without turning back I wonder
Do only tops of a mountain deserve to be warned by the sun.

Do only birds have rights of the blue sky

I am not a birds nor do i have wings

but who said I don't want to fly?

Answer 1

i believe in short i has to do with Identity: he is wearing a mask to conform to society's rules, but he wants to show his true colors. he wants to go above and beyond conventional thoughts and habits

Answer 2

alienation, in the sense that without feeling rooted in a certain culture you have no way to know what is the path towards your goals.

If you have chosen to live outside a definate context which you lerned from birth, this is all very well, but then if you do not find another context in which human hopes fears and dreams make sense then all you have is a vague yerning for fullfilment, with no way to express what that fulfillment might entail.

Answer 3

Loneliness; self-imposed isolation. McDonald's ("I'm Lovin' It").

I mean, come on. Read the poem not as words but for what the words represent. Feel it, rather than become constricted by the structure. Don't shut down on it.

Answer 4

I would say. . .about a complaining soul, planning to softly give up to its hopes of finding the places it dreamed once or reaching the skies as it once planned, but keeping that feeling - that once was hope - as sadness and hopelessness.