The Face Above The Crowd

It's easy to drift with the current
to be part of a reflexive flow
It's a task to stand on your own
un-beholden to the desire of the crowd
and the measure of its standing

It's not who you know
that gives your life meaning
but who you are
and unless you are true to yourself
you are nobody

Those cloaked in the fear of their inexactitude
seek the security of sameness
those who can return any stare
have no need of any skin
but their own