Plain Canvas

I’m just a plain canvas, let me be.

I don’t want colour to make me pretty.

 

Let me stand proudly among the sunsets and oceans,

And the portraits of beauty and abstract emotions.

 

Tell me that I look beautiful, pure and innocent.

Tell me that I don’t need colour to make me luminescent.

 

You can scowl in disgust and remind me of my insecurities,

But remember your just hiding yours, while I show my anxieties.

 

I don’t need to hear your voices on the radio, I don’t need to see

Your disclaimers and adverts every second manipulating me. Just let me be!

 

Let me be a plain canvas. It’s who I am; it’s who I want to be.

Adding colour to your life isn’t wrong. But it’s just not for me.