Conformation

It's important that you be yourself 

It's important to fit in

It's important not to eat too much

And to not be too thin

Look at yourself

All the edges that don't fit

In the circular hole they've given you

Look at the funny way you sit

Why can't you sit straight?

Oh, I wonder why -

Why don't you laugh more?

Why can't you cry?

So heartless not to care

So sensitive to mind

So perceptive and judgmental 

So naive and so blind

All that matters is how you finish

But you call that a place to start?

Always try to save face

But I pick mine apart

Apart from all the expectations

What is there left to do?

Drenched in all the conjecture 

Losing your grip on you

Because it's important that you be yourself

Just be the self they want to see

It's important that you be yourself

But I'd rather just be me

Would You

If you were in my place

Walking by the sea

Counting the shells

If you were me -

Holding each breeze 

Each moment in memory

Would you pause here

To draw the sun into your skin

Would you take the time

To watch the world spin

If I could stay here

Lost amidst the breeze 

My toes in the sand

Walking on and on with ease 

The waves crashing in my ears

If time would freeze -

Would you stay here

Lost in memory

Would you spare the time

And hold it here with me

If life could be so simple

And days could stay so calm

Wrapped in serenity 

If we hadn't a single qualm 

I'd bundle all eternity 

And hold it within my palm