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SlowlyFallAway
Member

since 2008-08-29

Posts 279
North Carolina

0 posted 2008-08-29 09:08 AM

I try to add up to everything they're expecting of me
But I don't think I can take more of everyone looking at me
They walk around all day just judging me
And they don't realize that it's affecting me
They think that I should be
Everything the world has in store for me
But I tried that, and it's not working for me
Cause I only want to be
What I want me to be
They're pressuring me
And it's killing me
I'll always stand tall
It's how they expect to see me
Inside I'm throwing up
Cause no one understands me
I want to run away from me
Cause it's me who I'm holding captive
I want to break free and just be me
But that's not what the world wants to see
So I have to bring out the fake version of me
Whenever I'm around someone other than me
Otherwise, they might be afraid of me
Or could it be myself who's afraid of me
I don't know what they're asking of me
But I do know that I wish I wasn't me
Maybe if I was them, it would show me
How to stay solid and never sway
Everyone's always talking to me
About how they think I should be
They won't just accept that I'm only me
And acceptance is all I need

Emily Shives

JenniferMaxwell

Member Elite

since 2006-09-14

Posts 2423

1 posted 2008-08-29 09:11 AM

Your poem certainly lived up to the title.
Welcome to the Darkside!

NormalitxButterfly
Member

since 2008-07-09

Posts 107

2 posted 2008-08-31 12:26 PM

yes there is so much that the world expects of us
that people expect of us.
but what do you expect of yourself?
what is it that you want out of life?
that is what you need to ask yourself.

a bird caged can never fly,
can never feel the wind beneath its wings.
forever longing to be free
locked within your glass birdcage
you waste away
clutching to you
the very thing that will set you free.

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

3 posted 2008-09-03 12:00 PM

I enjoyed this, but I think you can give it the same power without using the word "me" as often as you do. I think using it in the title suffices.

Enjoyed

"...buried way beneath the sheets
I think she's having a meltdown..."
"Buckcherry"

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