In Your Skin

There aren’t many times in my life

Where I’ve felt comfortable

Where I’ve felt welcome

I’ve spent most of it feeling horrible

Believing the poison people told me

I eventually started living as if it was true

I lost who I was in the pursuit of being their version of better

I held back my God given talents

Because they weren’t good enough

So I was told

Blocked out my instincts to live what I was told was the right way

I breathed in their toxic words

Trying hard to move past the suffocation

Mired in the quicksand

I couldn’t see past my desperate need to feel loved and wanted

To fit in

To make them all see

There was nothing wrong with me

I could be like them

I could be beautiful

I could be popular

I could be rich

I could say the right things

Wear the right clothes

I could be just like them

But I tried and failed

I was never meant to be anyone other than me

It took a blow to the head to realize this

To have the reality of who I truly am dawn on me

I finally saw how shallow they all were

How I was better off different

How I wasn’t the problem

My life is my own to live

My own to make

My heart is my own to please

And the sky’s the limit for me

I can rise above all they throw at me

I can be better than their best

I just have to choose what’s right for me

I have to live my life for me

I was created to be exactly who I am

I was never meant to be someone else

I was never meant to be like anything ever created

I was created unique and perfectly me

It’s a hard thing to realize

Sometimes hard to swallow

That fitting in isn’t a requirement for happiness

Fitting comfortably in one’s own skin is all that’s needed

Being happy with yourself

That’s all

Easier said than done

I’ve learned this the hard way

It’s easy to live their lie than your own truth

That’s what they want you to think

Honestly you can’t be anything other than yourself

You can’t fail at being you

It’s innately ingrained into your being

Every cell in your body

Every memory in your brain

And every spark in your soul

Everything that you love is purely you

Everything you say and do is all you

To be them is like wearing something several sizes too small

It just doesn’t fit

It won’t ever fit

But your own skin grows

Stretches and covers you comfortably

Holds you in place

Keeps you sane

Hugs you beautifully so

You don’t have to alter your own personality

You don’t have to cut and tear apart who you are to make it fit

It just simply does

It’s love of yourself that keeps it strong

Keeps it intact

Keeps it whole

It’s love of yourself that keeps your truth shinning

It’s always better to be yourself

It makes this world more colorful and beautiful

You make this world more beautiful

Just the way you are

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