insecurity

always someone to take your place

always someone better

you either disappear without a trace,

or you're mimicking to the letter. 

it's not you, not what you love-

your beautiful disaster. 

you're losing yourself in a sea you're scared of

and gaining timidity faster.

a beauty, intelligent, but insecure

don't forget to be true to the truth!

compromise that and you lose what is pure:

your passions, your quirks, and your youth.

now you've had hardships that have made you sure.

been beaten and broken and battered.

but here's something you can be gratified for:

that damned insecurity's shattered.