Who Are You ¿
Who Are You ¿
What can you see of you
When everyone around you
Only sees the worst of you
When they are addicted to the weakness
Which plays to their ego
What truth of you
Is shown you
In the guise of love
They drown you
Does their habitual then become you
Does it fit
All that you see is the useless me
The troublesome
And to much trouble to be
You
What else can you see of you
When everyone around you
Only sees the worst of you
They convince you of your ineptitude
A platitude which describes
You
And never looks further into
The you
They have created
The you
They take for granted
They are too comfortable
With heir impressions
Way too sure of their interpretations
And so self serving in their conclusions
Label you
Lets them use you
And easily
Abuse you
Without a thought or moment of conscience
And the great big wheel
Rolls
To its own great big circle
You listen
You accept
And in the end
Become what they said
Was true of you
And they have the affront to call this
Love
Who’s next in their game of self-embellishment
……………………………………………………………………………….. but
Perhaps
You would like to see things from a different point of view
See all the love
And all the beauty
I see in you
Perhaps
You would like to see your strength
Your courage
Maybe
You would like to see yourself worthy
Eminently you are
Perhaps
You would care to see
How I have seen your struggle
With a tender heart
And gentle hands
That others would curl to fists
In the face of their demands
Maybe
All you see of you
Is what they want you to
Maybe
You are far more
So much more
I am sure
That like a wild stallion
They seek to restrain
For the fear of discovering that they
Are less
And you
You are so much more
Perhaps
Someday
You will see the lies
For what they are
Perhaps
Someday
You will look at yourself
And see yourself through my eyes
All the love
You really are
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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