I'm Just Me...

IDENTITY

I'M JUST ME

Not the one

To fit into

society's constraints

Not the one

To shrink myself

for other's selfish gains

By society's

standards

To be defined

I am

way

Too refined

In just any one

divisional boxes,

I don't get in

In any

stereotypical category,

I don't fit in

To anyone else's

expectations,

I no longer heed

Everything that I am,

will be shown

only through deed

Let them

see me as a

worthless weed

The Hall of Fame

one day,

I'm sure to lead

No longer do I

put up any given

society's label

As to create

and show my own,

I'm now able

As a rose

smells sweet

with any other name

So to bloom forth

by myself,

that's my only aim

Unapologetically,

I am only,

just only ME

And that's what

I am always

going to be

6 September 2019
Pen A Poem Competition
REVA University

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