umm.. i'm sure when you all read this you'll all be able 
to relate to it somehow. it's about kind of how we're 
twisted to believe that only one kind of person can be 
beautiful and we have to be a certain way.. etc.. you 
know.. just the pressure and how it's hard to resist. 
enjoy..

you can't help it
this world can make 
us all so plastic.
when we're trying
so hard
to master it
and searching to find escape
from this reality of
madness.

warped to conform
the expectation
to be elastic
we're always held back
not allowed to just
react to it.

it's impossible
to measure the
damage done
all for a title
all just to say
you've won.

there's no right
in this.
no way to justify.
we do what we're
shown.
we don't bother
to ask why.

it's so easy
to say you defy
it's not hard
to say you rebel
because these are
you're new instructions
you become the same
as the new fakeness
contributing to individuality's
reduction
the change you're supposedly
fighting for
is the object of your
destruction.

and now it doesn't matter
even though it does
bruised and battered
is our self worth
and ability to love.

all we do now
is push and shove
you know they did it
just because
someone said they did.
you forget that
people can say
a lot of things.
that small words
can clip wings.

this is what we'll have to show.
this is what's gone on so long
it doesn't take much to see
we can all point out what's wrong.

love michelle.