We Need Self-Esteem

Everybody just freeze, please.
Put down your masks and guns.
Stop from the running and drugs
That mask a past not worth masking.
Some questions are really worth asking
Like are people acting this way,
Or is it really okay?
Put down your magazine walls
And stop with all the talks
About whether or not people are like this or not.
Put down your false masculinity and let it rot.
Women, put down the false face and just stop.
With a general low self-esteem
How does a civilization beam?
How can we bread if the seeds don’t have confidence?
What if we just haven’t made a promise yet?
A promise to be true, to be you.
A promise to quit faking and lying
And prying our hands into Aphrodite’s box.
A promise to just watch and listen
While the things that glisten
Flake and rust and we learn to trust:
What’s inside of a dull mind
Is like a coal mine with diamonds.
Just because its dull outside
Doesn’t mean you won’t find them.
If it shines then it lies,
If it lies it will rise
And when it does…
When it does it will toil
And flail into turmoil
By their own hands preoccupied by holding up a mask too big.
Ask a kid what he is,
He’ll say big because he’s fat, that’s a fact,
But not a wrap so attack that standard,
We must live in grandeur
At our own selves and love who we are,
Not some image we all want to be.
We should actually be what people see
So when we fall apart, we know who we need.