# Poem #60: You

Author: bhscorch1313
Tags: Individuality, Passion, Poetry, personality

#61 of Poetry

This is one of those poems where it is only done justice when performed out loud with feeling. It's a creative writing assignment given after watching Def Poetry (Russell Simmons - host). We were told to write a poem that exemplified what we were passionate about. I wrote a poem about realizing who you are and accepting that fact. It's important to be proud of who you are and to never try to change that. I hope you enjoy.

_You_

Some people say I think too much  
But there are some people  
Who don't think enough  
You stop and stare and look at me  
Like I'm the crazy one  
You don't even know me  
The only one who is close  
To knowing me is me  
Hell you don't even know yourself  
You sit there and judge me  
Like I'm some kind of freak  
A nerd, geek, bookworm, think-er  
Your stereotypical labels don't faze me

But let's stop for a minute and talk about you  
Let's take a moment out of our day  
And focus on who you think you are  
Or rather, on what you want others  
To think you are  
You wanna be cool, smooth, and slick  
You wanna be hip, phat with a ph  
And sick  
You wanna be an icon  
One everybody sees  
You wanna be the embodiment of everyone else  
But you don't wanna be yourself

You are too blind to see  
What it is that makes you  
Sometimes you've got to get down on your knees  
And plead to yourself  
"What am I doing?  
What am I becoming?"  
You gotta pick yourself up  
And dust the dust off  
Pick up a piece of the broken mirror  
And see yourself  
For who you really are  
Because you can't be somebody else  
No matter how hard you try  
You are you and I am me  
Now what'll it take for you to see  
That that will never change?

Every part of who you are is what defines you  
And you should value every piece  
Sometimes you gotta take a step back  
And take in the whole picture  
All at once to realize  
What you are really seeing  
And it isn't easy to think  
It's hard to criticize yourself  
To love yourself with harsh love  
And see yourself better because of it

I don't stand here telling you this  
I stand here making you realize that  
You can look in the mirror and only see you  
And you gotta decide if you like what you see  
Sometimes I think too damn much  
And sometimes I don't think enough.

~bhscorch

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