Will the real you

Please stand up

Man up

Be bold enough

To say,

"People

I can no longer live my life for you

I can’t stay cocooned

Locked up

Tied down

Chained into

Doing what you “expect” me to do

Until I’m so much of your expectation I don’t even know who

The real me actually is"

It’s tragic

That the fact is

The moment you do

Anything against the image that people have created for you

They might dismiss you, deject you, reject you and to them you

Become the same as everyone else

And when you think of having a life for yourself

This image of possibilities haunts you endlessly

Until you become the very thing you’re secretly

Afraid of being stuck in permanently

You become the thing that in others you so openly hate

You become this version of who you really are

You

Become

FAKE

But let me make

This journalistic endeavor

And ask you questions in search of answers

When you look in the mirror

How many faces are reflected?

When inspected have you ever

Noted

Any more than your feet

In your shoes?

Is there more than one who

Slips into your clothes when you dress for the day?

More than your nose, your two eyes, your two arms, your two hands, okay

I know you are thinking what exactly is she trying to say

So I’ll just say it

The only ONE that is living this life for YOU is YOU

It’s not up to someone else

This journey is about self

Let me help

Make this clear

While you live in fear of the rejection that may come when you walk away from living according to someone’s expectations

You disappoint your greatest Investor

Because the only one who should be cashing in on your life is the Creator

What do you surmise happens

When the ones whose expectations you’re wrapped up in

Die off

Fall off

Call off

Walk off

and you’re still living??

What then????????

When you strip down to the naked truth and view this thing factually

Lives lived in pretension

Are actually

Just LIES in motion

So I wrote these lines

To get you to see that its time

For your mind

To enforce an immigration policy

Purge itself of alien thoughts that have for so long taken up illegal residency

Renew itself so you’ll be true to yourself

And finally have the guts

To rise to your feet this time when I call out

Will the real you please stand up?!!!!!