When I found the way I liked to be
They said no, and excluded me
They said I should conform
They said I should fit in
Be their way
They said what they liked
I should like
They said what they wore
I should wear
They said what they believed
I should believe
They said …
They said …
They said …
They said so many things, that
just weren’t true
But gradually, I felt them
remaking me
These harsh opinions, these
angry raw truths
These people, these words, this world a noose
It wipes out my beautiful
individuality
Until I silence. I shut down
my voice.
I shut down my joy, my me, my choice
But I, I have learned the harshest lesson of all
The world
Does not care if I conform
The world
Does not care
Because it remembers my
beautiful individuality
It remembers the person that
I used to be
The person it didn’t want me to be
The person I always needed to be
The person it took
Away from me.