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A NEED, TO KNOW.

Why try to be someone else, 

​It's fine being me.

 

So long I have hidden, 

​Imitating others so I can fit in,

So long each crowd I'm not welcome. 

 

The party goer needs a people that tries new things, 

The body of Christ needs a people that has perfect ways,

 Being in between doesn't suit anyone,  that say. 

 

You know?, I've been someone different at every point in my life, 

​I've been put down, 

Picked up and spat out, 

Still I don't know whom to be

 

It was decided, right from birth,

​The decision was not mine to make, had known chance of a say, 

But it's okay now, I know better, 

It's okay. 

 

Now I know, 

Being me is okay, mistakes is fine, 

I ​don't have to be perfect, 

​Just be me, 

​Though I don't know what that is, 

​But now, I can try to know..... 

 

 

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john short

Sun 8th Oct 2017 03:27

Nice poem, with a simple honest feeling. Just found the ideas in the third stanza a bit disconnected and hard to grasp. Anyway, you make a good point - no one can decide your life from birth. Your life is your own. We just have one life to discover who we are, and it's not easy.

julie clark

Sat 10th Sep 2016 13:59

amen so true thank you
my son has written several songs about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJypYEk_MQM


hope you like it

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