I am but a shell What's inside you cannot tell I am simply ordinary Inner beauty quite contrary To the previous remark You view me as quote "stark" In my mind you're bleak and dreary Still I believe within you deary Is an acute flicker of light Just waiting to ignite A thousand possibilities Across the endless seven seas If only you could invision A world outside the television A place within yourself Imagination on the shelf Dust it off and change perspectives See how another being lives Not in your head but in theirs Though you'll grow tired climbing stairs Reaching for the tip top of perfection Praying for some form of protection Against the vibrance within the soul Colored red, orange, blue, pink, gold But see no one out there knows That inside us all it glows We want our true colors out Yet withold them with such doubt Yes, I am but a shell. But, tell me...aren't you as well?