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