Pressure To Be Someone I'M Not Poem by mona martinez

i may not truely know you,
but you make me want to be,
a better me,
i know i deserve better,
i just didn't want to leave the confort,
of being somebody,
other than i know,
we haven't talked long,
but i felt that you been more real,
than anybody in my life,
you listen to what i have to say,
you understand kinda of what i'm going through,
you show me that it's okay,
to let a certain part of me shine,
the part some ppl take for granted,
as i open up,
i'm being the real me that some don't accept,
they can't understand the pain,
and the struggles i go through,
day after day just to appear happy,
but deep down,
i'm not truely happy,
i'm pleasing ppl just to feel loved,
i let them control me to a certain point,
until i realized they took me off a path,
the path of life,
that has more meaning than the path,
that they had me on,
i don't want to just settle for good,
i want to be great,
it may not happen tomorrow,
but it will happen somewhere down the line,
i'm just me and that all i can be,
i just wish ppl will see me for who i am,
not who they want to turn me into.