Carbon Copies

You shoot me with conformity

You turned it all against me

You could have been yourself

But no one would hear

Your cries for help

You became this carbon copy

Everything everyone expects you to be

How much do you love yourself now?

You became this carbon copy

Can the approval keep you feeling safe?

There is a restlessness in your soul

That you shove away

Every night that you lie awake

Staring at your distractions

Hoping it will give you traction

Who can duplicate your carbon copy now?

Who can show you the way out?

No one

You surround yourself

With other carbon copies

So no one will show you

Just how unoriginal you've become

Now you are a carbon copy

Ever so slowly unraveling

Everyone is pulling the thread

Deep inside this fills you with dread

Locked inside your own head

With no one to truly understand you

Carbon copy, are you a zombie now?

Who can wake you up from your deep sleep?

Awake

Awake

Please

Awake

Awake

Please

Your soul is crying from inside of you

Begging you for purpose

Begging you to see

Begging you to have courage

A courage you have never

Let yourself know

You gave up too soon

You let yourself drown

Beneath the surface

Beneath the surface

Carbon copy,

Where are you?

Who are you?

Take a knife to your facade

Before every original part of you

Is just gone

Reviews

[no tell writer]

Very Awesome

You became this carbon copy
Everything everyone expects you to be
How much do you love yourself now?

Love this part, This is so very well written and so emotional

[StormeLight]

Awe =) Thank you so much

[no tell writer]

not a problem