Paint Swatch Poems

Poem #36// The Fear of Conformity

I clipped my wings and I flew blindly.
Scars from what I once was, flashing by me.
I fell from flight and tore myself open,
Memories of who I once was now gone.
I stumbled to the expanse of open water,
Floating farther away from myself.
I sat in the cold water and watched my heart freeze over,
Losing feeling of all I once loved.

My body stopped and I was sinking,
The pressure of their standards surrounding me.
My hands waved up towards the dancing moonlight,
But their eyes never saw past the surface.
My body collapsed on the shores,
Words crying out for a rescue that would never reach me.

They took me and who I was.
For so long, they lead me down a wrongful path.
But the moonlight is now my guide.
I'll step away from all they want from me,
A new footprint in flat sand.
They won't control me.

Yet through fading memories,
And crashing waters against the sand,
I still push harder.
To answer to them is to have nothing left.
To give in is to be empty.
To conform is to be nothing.
To let them win is to lose yourself. 
~a.k.

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This is a poem that I had to write in my english class about a personal fear. I thought it was good and decided to share it ;p