Being Yourself

To be yourself is quite difficult
In the world we live in today
Don't understand why
What people say and people do
Have to affect
What I say and what I do

Wanting for my voice to be heard
So loud, so clear
But no, that is not what happens
In the world I live in today.

So hard to hear my own voice
Over the infinite voices around me
Saying things I don't believe in
But forced to agree with

Hate to have to live like this
This life a lie to everyone

But soon,very soon
I will burst out from the dull crowd
To shine, to be above ordinary
To be something in this world

And then everyone will be free to think
And to be what they want to be
In the world I may live in tomorrow.

-Original Poem by  Natasha Menon