Everyone is tryna

identify
like they might

forget

who they are

and who they
aren't.

Like remembering a password.
It's mentally taxing.

When will they tire
of defining

access to their profile.

Let others define
you.

They are going to
anyway.

What's the point of
insisting you are
who you are,
when all thats left

is what others thought.

when all that's left
is particulates of dust

clinging to a
dusty mirror.

What were flaws,

fondness.

What was treasured,

ill-remembered

What was controversial,

censored,
memories like
s k i p p i n g records.

You know stop
means it's over.