How about being who I am

Free from the burden of
Being good in the other's eyes,
Carrying the uneasiness
Of trying to be someone else,
How about being who I am.

Letting go that urge
To copy the other,
To see the world in the eyes of the other,
To believe on a borrowed ideology,
To create an art,
with a copied idea.
How about being who I am.

Forgoing the tiredness
Of pleasing all,
That tireless striving,
To walk in the roads,
Marked by the other,
How about being who I am.

Choosing my own path,
Swimming my own stream,
Fighting my own war,
Dancing in my own tune,
How about being who I am.

Lovely is that point of being
In awareness of who I am,
In understanding what I stand for,
In knowing my own self,
And the world.
How about doing that
What makes me feel proud,
What makes me feel relevant,
What makes me feel  I.

Reclaiming that Identity,
Here I walk the unknown path in solitude,
In this pilgrimage of life,
To my own shrine,
Being who I am.

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