we are different

Our faith is vitiated by our minds
Deep in the fabrics of our hearts is where the poison resides
Our soul it profanes, our conscience it derides
Causing us to follow other people’s trends
We follow their lifestyles and enticing designs
So abstract becomes the idea of considering our rights and wrongs
Vivid is the intention of following the crowd, trying to belong
In spite of appearance, we are all weak
Attention is the nourishment we so desperately seek
Perpetually updating statuses striving to elate our social status
Trying to be everything but ourselves, everything but unique
Death has sunk his teeth deep in our necks even as we breathe
For the lives that we live are not our own
The day we stop seeking the approval of man and seek that of God
Only then can we say we are alive, only then can we say we are strong

We mindlessly utter the words “mind over matter”
How ironic because what we don't mind doesn't matter
And the only thing inhabiting our minds is matter
Our eyes blinded by ignorance, fail to see there is something greater
The devil on our backs cloud our judgment but we should know better
We only have ears for what comes out of the mouth of the “trend-setter”
Hypnotized by their words, detailing and absorbing every letter
Are we that weak? Or we just cannot take the pressure
Of being different….being ourselves, Being what the creator made us
We can never be truly alive unless we embrace who we are