I hate the feeling

I hate the people

Who tell us we're not supposed to be

We can be

Whatever we want to be

Whoever we need to be

I'm so scared

Of leaving

Of learning

What I'm supposed to do

When all I really want

Is innocence

And loving however

And whoever

I want to

It makes me cry

Choke

Freeze

When I think of

A time when you'd belong to someone

Other than me

The world tells us it's not right

But just for tonight

I need to fabricate our own world

Where I can be me and you are you

And no one tells us what to do

Or how to

Why do they think they're in charge

Of young hearts

I don't mind

What's on the outside

There are times I realize

That all I need

Is to just be next to you

And I can let myself be free

From all the things controlling me

Please don't look at me

Like I'm something other

Than what you expect;

What the world "needs"

I'm not so strange

Just me

But I feel so small

Unsure, and insecure

Secrets are eating me alive

Just me

Stuck here

Wishing these things were allowed

Won't someone help

Even this creature so unworthy