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Jun 2018
life is always changing
I know that for sure
every time I close my eyes
I open a door
it's always a place
I've never seen before
and I always come back
craving for more
because it's the times, when I cry and I fall
when I actually start, to appreciate it all
I start to see the meaning of it all
all my pain, my fear, my hate, and my doubt
I started to see what it's all about
it's what we believe and what we perceive
we believe that we need, to impress to succeed
we strive for acceptance
like our need to breathe
we try so hard,  just to fit in
that everything real, is forced within
we put on fake clothes, masks, and personas
we let society's belief's, begin to own us
we have no one to show us how really to be
but I'm changing that, starting with me
I took off the blindfold
and started to see
I started to see what it means to be me
I started to see how life could be
without letting others
tell me - how to be
It's amazing to be, without obligation
to society's standards
and this ******* nation
I've started to become, a very real person
I've finally gone numb, to the pain that just worsens
before all of this, I was living in hell
wondering when the day would come, that I finally fell
and I did
I fell deep into my mind, where all my demons hid
it felt like the times, when I was a kid
I'd sit in my room
wishing things would change
wondering why things were this way
wondering when I could finally say
what's on my mind
what's in my heart
I took all of my restraints
and tore them apart
I let my soul sing
and opened my heart
I broke out of my shell and started to shine
I became stronger and started to define
define what it means, to actually be me
and not give a ****, about what others see
I began to manifest
my own reality
and all of my pain
disappeared from around me.
Self exploration and introspection
Written by
Michael Mallen
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