POETRY
FREEDOM OF INNER BEAUTY
beauty speaks from your heart and inner - self as
who you truly are deep inside
that sweet innocent person you try to deny is
living out her dream to be herself
please don’t try to crush me as i walk away
to much pain i already take from my past to where
i stand now
i want to be freed not locked up in some cage
i just want to be me
i want to live not die slowly because of your belief
i may have those same beliefs but we’re far
different
i love to love most of everyone and anyone as i
can
no matter the hurt and pain they’ve caused me
do what Jesus did loved everyone no matter
whom that caused him great pain
though his great love is all we need
what i need
i need to live and be free
i want to love freely and to be free to marry whom
i love and free to be who i am
i’m tired of trying to be someone i’m not for you
is it a crime to be myself is it
you say i’m your daughter but dont seem like it
much to me
for what i feel from your actions im a disgrace to
you i’m nothing that you’ve wanted
sure you see most people around are straight for
most of what they say but dont seem much like it
a poem like this is my true feelings of me and how
i view things
sure i may get bullied it’s really nothing new it
seems to me that it still happens to me from past
to today
i can get used to it
but trying to get used to not having my rights
is gonna take time i dont want to get used to
that i want my freedom as they say we have
but it’s a BIG FAT LIE
the TRUTH where is it because i can’t see it
if you love me as your daughter i should
be able to be myself freely without feeling
disgraced
BEAUTY AND LOVE is from within
if everyone can show it this world wouldn’t be
so chaotic
it’s hard to feel strong when you’re feeling
broken by those that you thought would still
love you no matter what
dreams are being crushed no where to go
if you can help make eyes shine bright and
not fade into dullness
maybe you can love with no regrets of what
other’s thought
that’s why i have no other choice but to make
myself strong by doing all i can to love myself
when i see you don’t
signs of weakness you cant give as strength
when you’re blinded
take some time to think and realize the words
that you’re saying and try to be a help to many
lives that are being crushed by cruelty
if you truly love than show me that you do and
dont just say it
because want to see and feel that you do
otherwise i may not be your true daughter
if i’m not how you’ve ever wanted of me
all i dream of more is to be free to be me
De’Andra, 18
12th Grade
Warren Central
Indianapolis, IN
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