Self-expression is Not a Question

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 22:28 -- JAlexa

People always want to fit in and be one with the crowd

But I’m not one to bow-down

To what others deem important or proper

My self-expression knows no boundaries

Who I want to be is who I will be

So what if others judge or deny me

I will be the winner in the end

Because I stand up for what I believe in

And I will look how I want to look

Not how society tries to confine me

To look like everyone else

With the same hair, same clothes

Same face with the same nose

I will always be me

Because I want to be happy

And trying to confine me and put me in a box

Trying to label me and push me down

Will not work the way they want it to

Because I will always get back up and fight to be free

To be who I want and do what I want

Because it’s what makes me, me

And of course there’s no one else I’d rather be

Because to me self-expression has never been a question

I will be me through all the oppression

And everything that they throw at me

Will never change me

I will keep on being me

With all my extremities

This poem is about: 
Me

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