Just Want To Be Me

This poem is for people in stifling relations, for people bound by love and for people who are trying so hard to live upto somebody else’s expectations…parents pushing children, children trying so hard to be somebody their not…for husbands, wives, friends. Live and Let Live

I can’t pretend anymore,

To be the person you want me to (be),

I can’t pretend anymore,

To do the things you want me to (do).

I just want to be me,

Not who you want me to be,

I just want to be me,

Not who you want the world to see.

I can’t pretend anymore,

Like we were meant to be,

I can’t pretend anymore,

Like you and I are ‘WE’.

I just want to be me,

To carve my destiny,

I just want to be me,

To etch my identity.

I can’t pretend anymore,

I just want to be me!

7 responses to “Just Want To Be Me”

Smitha V

September 26, 2017

Reblogged this on SILVER LININGS… and commented:

Another one from the good, old, past. But one that’s as important today as it was yesterday. Just Be You and Be Happy. Life’s precious, live it ! Be free of stifling bonds!

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Binny

September 26, 2016

Well said Smitha .Grown up in an atmosphere of “look at her”or “look at him”.Can very well associate with it till I freed myself from that bondage ……

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1. Smitha Vishwanath
  
  September 26, 2016
  
  Absolutely Binny. As parents we dont realise how we repeat the same mistakes our parents made and we hated. Guess time to undo some of those things
  
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Anonymous

September 26, 2016

Smitha this is such a lovely poem and builds self-esteem. I think it is nice for young ones to read and it can help them understand themselves in a world that is more of a market-p place and attempting to encash on the weakness of the mind! XO

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1. Smitha Vishwanath
  
  September 26, 2016
  
  Thanks Geetanjali. Means a lot coming from an English Professor.
  
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TNR Nair

September 26, 2016

Life is what one makes. Its strictly ones own way of making it. Well articulated.

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1. Smitha Vishwanath
  
  September 26, 2016
  
  Thank you daddy. Guess a lot of people feel like this in all relations
  
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