"Be yourself"
They say
But they only mean it
If they can choose
Who you are
"Be yourself"
But when we try
We are told that
We are wrong
That we shouldn't be like that
"Be yourself"
But only the part
That society accepts
The part of us
That really isn't us
Society doesn't accept
Our true selves
Society accepts beauty
And conformity
And we do it because
Otherwise
We are practically bullied
To the point where
All we can do is try
To be accepted
We are forced to conform
To society and as we do
We lose who we truly are
As we choose to live
In this world of cruelty
We chose to live
And lose who we are
In the process
Because what else are we to do?
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The Gateway To My Mind // #Wattys2019
PoetryA forever ongoing collection of all the poems I've ever written. #753 in Poetry, 11/3/2017 #21 in Randompoems, 2/11/2019
