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Pigeonholed

Amanda Steel

You can be anything you want, they said
Throwing falsehoods at her
Freedoms of youth
With a path yet unlived
Not even written yet

But when she tried to follow her dreams
They said slow down
Time is on your side
And knowledge only comes with age
You’ll learn

And she did learn
That time is against us all
Slowing down when inspiration
Is fighting to move us forward
Can only stilt our dreams

She discovered the way people file you away
In boxes, attaching labels
Insisting you can only be this or that
Pick one, you can’t do everything
But why not?

We are all more than one thing
Why limit ourselves?
If the inspiration takes hold
And leads to expanding who you are
Why fight it and force yourself into a pigeonhole?
You are not a pigeon

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