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Psychological Deficiency


How can I be myself

When they teach me to be like someone else

Some one I can never be because I never was and will never be some one else

How can I take the Lead

When the information they feed me is meant to make me a tail subjected to the 

Sometimes unthinking Head

 

I do not blame you for being a stereotype

It is all from the way you were being programmed when you were growing up

Implicit biases buried deep within clouding your judgment of reality

You paint reality with the limited colors of your brain

Open up stop being stereotypical start to train your brain.

You taint sociality with myopic eyes filled with strain

Seeing the world filtered through the lens of your assumptions

Fleeing from beings who can change your emotions

Just because they dare to question your opinions.

In our difference lies our unique strength

Perfect substitutes for each other

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Elfuric

Ever since I learnt how to write I never stopped writing short stories, poems and ideas. I am from Africa living in South Africa, Joburg. I am a business man with a love for music and writing. Its lovely how a poem can be turned into a song. Rhythm and Words are my closest friends. I respect The Sound of Life and the power in following your Heart which makes Music till the day you die.

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