Lamp Shade
another constraint
like the lamp shade
or the walls you paint
that begin to fade
cannot be spread
throughout the room
another dread
always in gloom
cannot be fully free
nothing really could
for as you can see
all that matter would
be just what it takes to take
that which was pure and uninhibited
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water formed into a lake
but what was it that the water did
for the soil around
was the main reason
so we may try
to be free alone
but we wouldn't even be a lie
or even be able to be our own
if it weren't for those
those around us
neither us or them chose
but we all rose
and everyone knows
as each of us grows
more and more shows
that we don’t change from others
but the others let us be us
we are less influenced by them
than we have ourselves reflected
right off of them
for it was hidden
and now it shows
and now it glows
and everyone knows
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