a demonstration of personality suffocation.

a poem about how everyone seems to want to be anyone else but themselves.

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

when you feel as though you cannot fit the mold

that the world sets forth in front of you,

sidestep what you are given and

pour all that you are into a

wax figure that looks

like yourself.

there is no point in trying to emulate

the visage of anyone else because

you will never discover yourself

if you embody the image of

someone who has already

been through the

process.

everyone strives to be like each other but

would it not be a more serene world to

inhabit if we cherished variation

instead of preferring a lack

of differentiation?

personal identification

is lost in the simulation

and the universal fixation

with imitation

is a demonstration

of personality suffocation.

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