Make Believe

You can make the world believe what you want,

There isn’t anyone out there to tell you that you’re wrong.

Are you the girl that has the confidence through the roof?

Or are you the girl that lies to make it through?

You can make people see you as strong,

While at the same time they are believing something so wrong.

Weakness isn’t a characteristic to have,

Being strong is something people love.

It can be fake or real as long as people believe it,

All you want is to be able to fit.

When people start to read through your front,

You do whatever it takes to put it back up.

The struggle of being strong is real,

It’s hard because of all of the doubt you feel.

People can tell you that you’re pretty all day,

What they don’t realize is you won’t believe them anyway.

Their words become a mumbled mess,

“I love your hair, eyes, smile, blah blah” you care less.

Some days are better and you feel okay,

But then you wake up and it’s another struggle filled day.

The problem is you don’t crave the attention,

Sometimes you wanna disappear into the background.

Both headphones go in and you fade away,

Music is the only way to fade away into the grey.

Music let’s the jumbled words flow into print,

It’s the only thing that keeps you from losing it.

The doubt starts to suffocate you again,

This time will it finally win?

Your head somehow breaks through the surface,

Your story still doesn’t have an end.

You fake that pretty smile people love,

Another day has just begun.

Today you look in the mirror and smile,

You love yourself today oh so fine.

As the day continues you start to lose your confidence,

It’s back to climbing up that flat endless fence.

And here you go doubting everything and yourself again,

Back to this game of life of pretend.