Change...

You are who you are... Deep down inside...

A core set of values, physical appearance may hide.

But over the course of one's life-time, so much has too change.

And a "You" that once was, may become someone strange.

 

Yet how can this be?.. As I can only be me?

Was it always just there? Only now being set free.

Or perhaps the same trait, to a different degree.

From an amber flame's glow, to a fire's intensity.

 

The world we live in, is alive all around you.

A product of cause and effect that surrounds you.

To build and create what motivation propounds you.

Astounds you, confounds you and if your not careful drowns you.

 

So changing is something that someone must do.

By bending and adapting to what may ensue.

With each choice, each course and train of thought you persue.

Forever shaping the view of this world you construe.

 

That being said, the road to change can be painful.

Wrought with situations and events deemed distastful.

Leading to choices though gainful, disdainful.

And should it be able, distable the faithful.

 

But to truly move forward, you cannot remain static.

Locked in an attic, of emotional panic.

I say this to you without sounding dogmatic

Though perhaps I am being a tad melodramatic.

 

You are who you are... Deep down inside...

Where a ocean of emotion and conviction reside.

Where quickly a soul can leave feeling estranged.

Where we all have the God given power to change.

Author's Note

Good to be writing again... missed you all <3

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Where quickly a soul can left feeling estranged.
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or did you mean...
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Where quickly a soul can leave feeling estranged.

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I liked how you put the word play in each stanza...
the rest of this explains it to the reader...
seems a person is saying this on a podium...
just the way the write feels as I read...

[Kyrosutra]

Thank you for pointing that out :) I will correct it immediately.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

you're welcome...

[Everett DeValle]

Good to see you writing again, Kyo...the message is insightful who choose to face the mirror...and in life people live in their shallow ways to avoid there true self. Wonderful write my friend.