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Necro Draconis
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since 2000-05-19
Posts 115


0 posted 2000-06-02 07:44 PM



Be Your Self

Have you ever looked inside,
And realized that we must hide.
To always live in fear,
Is that the future far and near.

Why does life go this way,
Can’t we all stop and pray.
For in this world we can’t be,
The one true person that we see.

To be ourselves is a sin,
We must live a false life to fit in.
If we could be who we are,
What peace there would be near and far.

We could realize we’re not the same,
And that no one is to blame.
The hate would be no more,
And just peace forever more.

Needs alittle work



 By Necro Draconis

Let nature guide your soul.

© Copyright 2000 Ryan Kruse - All Rights Reserved
Jana Tovey
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since 2000-05-30
Posts 257
USA
1 posted 2000-06-02 07:59 PM


Lovely sentiments.  I am myself because I don't know who else to be.
fractal007
Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958

2 posted 2000-06-02 08:06 PM


Very nice.  It conveys the problems in our current society.  Why are so many people afraid to express themselves.

You know what I've found strange:


Why is it that the people that are not afraid to express themselves, or to show their true selves(well, at least be different), always end up being the famous ones?  Pretty wierd, or is it?

bluebrdy65
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since 2000-05-16
Posts 276
Gladys,
3 posted 2000-06-04 11:36 AM


Your poem explains how so many people
live thier lives.
Its very sad.
So many different social levels people think they have to fit in.
I myself am myself.Some do find me weird
but the ones that mean the most only give me love.
Great poem.

Blue

brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland
4 posted 2000-06-04 07:15 PM


I am myself because no one self was good enough for the role. Society does put pressure on people to conform, but why should we listen to the foolish minority who think they know everything. Flaunt your differences wear them proud. Celebrate your identity. really enjoyed your poem. thanks for sharing



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"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else"-Richey Edwards

"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity"
Nicky Wire, A design for Life.

manic street preachers
"Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair"

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.



EagleOne
Member Elite
since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829
Between a laugh and a tear...
5 posted 2000-06-04 09:37 PM


i don't think it needs too much work at all, you conveyed the feelings well. I expended a lot of time and energy trying to be what others expected, now....well I'm just me, and I'm a lot better for it.  

 God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Unknown



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