Tag: misunderstood

I am plagued by what
people assume I will be.
And I don’t want to accept it
and smile with you.
I’m not happy to be the picture
you have painted of me.
I will not stand and pose like a
mirror image of that portrait.
I don’t want you to frame me that way.
I just want to be seen as what I am
and the potential of what I could be.