Array ( [sid] => 183513 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Coming Disconnected [time] => 2016-09-05 22:45:53 [hometext] => Give yourself time to find out who you are [bodytext] => To become like everyone else, is to live in clothes that will never fit us. Forgotten for how well we blended – but remembered fondly for our accidental leaks of authenticity, (that crooked smile that simply wouldn’t stay tucked under our hat)!.

Rather than re-make ourselves into what we are not, perhaps it would be simpler to leave the parade just one time; march out of step on wobbly knees, and wander off on a journey without street signs or a laugh track.
Although we can always go back, if you are very fortunate, when you are far too busy being yourself to notice, a few will come to walk quietly beside you, looking to discover in themselves, the imperfect and incredible stranger that you found the courage to be so long ago. [comments] => 4 [counter] => 347 [topic] => 19 [informant] => softerware [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => InspirationalPoems ) Your Poetry Dot Com - Coming Disconnected


Coming Disconnected
Date: Monday, 5th September 2016 @ 10:45:53 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: softerware
To become like everyone else, is to live in clothes that will never fit us. Forgotten for how well we blended – but remembered fondly for our accidental leaks of authenticity, (that crooked smile that simply wouldn’t stay tucked under our hat)!.

Rather than re-make ourselves into what we are not, perhaps it would be simpler to leave the parade just one time; march out of step on wobbly knees, and wander off on a journey without street signs or a laugh track.
Although we can always go back, if you are very fortunate, when you are far too busy being yourself to notice, a few will come to walk quietly beside you, looking to discover in themselves, the imperfect and incredible stranger that you found the courage to be so long ago.

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