Ingrained
Certain habits are ingrained
From when you were a kid,
So though you’re grown, they’ve been retained
For things you always did.
Like if you’re sloppy or you’re neat,
Your age won’t likely change it
And if your diet leans towards sweet,
The years won’t rearrange it.
If you’re quiet, maybe shy,
It’s rare that you’ll outgrow it
And once a bully, you might try
To change, but you will blow it.
We learn when we are very young
From others we are seeing
And those we closely live among,
The varied ways of being.
And slowly we adapt and find
What self we’ll be presenting,
How others see what in our mind,
Which we can’t help preventing.
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