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Shy of condition Shyness afflicted Shy opaque canvas butterfly Who only speaks when addressed Oh shy , Oh shy Opaque butterfly Who only speaks when addressed Converses only in chilling whispers shyness permitting Corner to corner when in a room searching camouflage in which to shelter cloak invisibility Personable , polite , contrite yet sadly lacking personality Apart from shyness to call on as a solent friend and crutch to lean upon So shy and friendless butterfly has no one but himself to pacify his mental health On the outside but still a bystander fenced in by wall's built out of social convention barricade stone's Alone is shy with untapped depth bound and blighted by crippling stage fright For fear of letting one's presence be known and felt in company But no less worthy of being heard than those who crave and hogg the limelight for themselves Who are probably no less or even more insecure than the terminal shy Both suffer from the same personality condition just express themselves in different or their own way Shy , eccentric , exhibitionist two sides of the same coin Unable to express oneself for fear of being torn apart for being different In a world shepherded by sheep where everyone aspires to be a lookalike Everyone eventually ends up looking like mutton dressed up in lamb's designer wool With the wool pulled firmly over our eye's
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