Because it's getting annoying
her being herself,
let's push her to be someone else
someone who fits in with the rest of us
in our family within our family.
Let's make her talk when she doesn't want to.
Let's make her open up when she's not ready to.
Because this is taking too long
and it's getting annoying,
her sitting over them alone in silence,
just getting to be... herself.
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22 & Learning Poetry Collection: Curiously Beautiful
PoetryBeing vulnerable is one of the scariest things any human being can do; to unfasten the armor reinforced by a lifetime of difficult lessons, strip down to nothing but the fine curves of one's existence, and bare the scars of the soul in the sincerity...
