What Endures.

Nobody can be you.

And you should not be
anyone else.

You are irreplaceable.

When your name came out of
his mouth

No other name was mentioned
in the same breath.

Explore yourself.
Discover how wonderfully complex you are.
Realise your potential
and unleash them.

Protect them
from the harm of words that

cannot endure time.

If you allow them,
they will
recreate you

to be who you don't want to be
to be who you are not.

Some told me
I should be someone else.

I've tried,
and I didn't like myself.

Why should I try.
I'm not someone else.
I'm me.
Why should I try.
I don't belong to anyone else.
I belong to
Who made me.

And I only want to be like him.
I am only comfortable
in my own skin;
not hers,
not any others.

Why should we wear
the words
that didn't make us.

Why should we allow
these words thicken and burden
our skin, our bodies,
our souls, our spirits.

I've learnt to only

Listen to what endures

because

only what endures

can set us free.

Free to be
who we should be.

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