What She Needs To Know

 

She sits there biting back her tongue quietly,

not making a scene, trying to conform to society.

People may view her as just being shy,

but in reality, the way she acts is all just a lie.

Her mother said don’t speak unless you’re told to

swallow your words, your thoughts, your attitude.

So she does as shes told,

all though her thoughts begin to violently unfold.

She must follow and hold

all of it in

as if it were a sin,

to let go and be herself,

instead of bottling her personality and putting it on a shelf.

 

You see she’s afraid, afraid her friends will go,

so she puts on a show.

Smiling on the outside, but what they don’t know

she wants to be herself. She wants to let go. 

 

Many questions float throughout her head

as she lays there in her bed.

What if they don’t like who I am?

What if they don’t understand?

Her heart screams and beats frustrated

as her brain tells her begs her to just stay situated.

 

What this girl needs to know,

is that she needs to let go.

No matter who she is or what she does

there will always be people who love her because

they will see her true self; 

the one who was bottled up on that shelf.