A Selection of Poems

Conform

I don't understand

Why can't I be like that, too?

I'm trapped in a room

Kidnapped out of the blue.

I want to know

What it's like

To be out there, too

Walk around and take a hike.

I want to understand

What other people are thinking

I don't understand

I can't tell when you're joking.

Because I'm so naive

Taking advantage of me

What do you think you're doing

Something that I cannot see.

I'm not like you

And I never will be

Because something's happened

What is so different about me?

Why can't I be like you?

Maybe that way I can finally talk

For I am too afraid

To be the first one to walk.

And so I conform

To you in order to fit in

But is it worth it?

The answer to that, I cannot even begin.

Stripped of my identity

Who am I now?

Does that even matter anymore?

What am I now?