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For One Stop Poetry Week 41
Let Me Be
By Nomar Knight
Let me be who I say I am
Not what you want me to be
Pleasing you got me in a jam
Stole my originality
Let me be what I want to be
Even if you lose face
I own up to responsibility
Your reaction's a disgrace
Let me be different for a change
Not like a robot stuck in time
So your friends call me strange
They never gave us a dime
Let me be a learner in my way
Even if I stumble and fall
Can't protect me every day
You're not talking to a brick wall
Let me be who I'm born to be
Original like sin
Spread my wings and be free
Tired of living in a stranger's skin
Let me be the one to soar
For great heights do await
Raising me wasn't a bore
Please let me meet my fate
© Copyright Nomar Knight 2011. All rights reserved.
A Knight Chills poem.
Eloquent!! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is tough being different in a world that pushes wholesomeness...Sad how they want to push difference aside and raise a bunch of little robots with no thoughts of their own...geez!!!
http://lynnaima.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/in-search-of-jasmine/
nice...i think that is the most important thing in life...discovering who we are and having permission to be that person...
ReplyDeleteNice poem. Took me a while to learn to be myself and not what was expected. Very nice not having to pretend. I'm not like my sisters, but personally I think they are boring and my friends a bit more interesting.
ReplyDeleteSo well written...
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hm - think it's so important that we are allowed to be who we are..
ReplyDeleteWhen we try to please everyone else, we lose ourselves. Very nicely written piece on this topic.
ReplyDeleteBe always who you are and never let it go. Ideal poem.
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