My seven-year old poem
Going through some old floppy disks (remember those?) and found a poem I'd written in 1998 about image. Interesting, considering I'm in the marketing industry, but I still believe what I wrote back then.
- IMAGE
- by Simon Young
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- Image is a trap
- Image is a wall
- Image isn't everything,
- It's nothing at all
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- Image comes last
- On my list
- Image changes fast
- Image isn't as important
- As you'd like to think
- Be freed from the pressure
- To present yourself
- As something you are not
- Something you hope to be
- Or wish you were
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- Just be yourself
- Here.
- Communicate
- Don't manipulate
- Don't hesitate
- To be real
- Who are you and why?
- I care about those things
- I don't care about your walls
- I don't care about your image
- Who are you? Do you know?
- Is your image really you
- Or is it a guard over the
- questioning hole that lies
- at the centre of you?
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- (c) Copyright 1998 Simon Young
posted by Simon @ 6:03 pm
1 comments
1 Comments:
When I first read this Simon, I thought you meant you had written it when you were seven...what a bright child you would have been (well, you probably were anyway).
Living in Los Angeles, working in the entertainment industry, I can tell you that image is a very highly regarded thing here. People obsess over it, their own in particular, and everything they do revolves around it. The others they associate with, the clubs they visit, the cars they drive. It all boils down to projecting that all-important IMAGE.
And you're right, it doesn't mean anything, because it's usually all a con, right? And I think it's what happens when people aren't comfortable with themselves, or even worse, they have no idea who they really are. In the worst case, sometimes that true essence never gets to shine through, and that person is left to live a life that's devoid of authenticity. It becomes something of a trap then...what a horrible thought.
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