Peer Pressure

• Abigail Evans, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2020

The overpowering ideas filling your head
That all your peers expect you comprehend.
The clashing of thoughts that you've been taught
Rebounding in your brain, without any restrain.

Others feel this too, you aren't alone
This case isn't new, it is quite well known.
Following your friends, following the trends,
It's not helping anyone; you're being overrun.

Need to get out, need to escape
Reverse the way you are thinking, reshape.
Don't let others control and take over the role
Of what you think is right, without a conscious fight.

Refreshing freedom from the weakened anxieties
Reflected off from the crowd, that’s the society's
Peace of paranoia, destruction of the destroyer.
No further need to fret, when you've changed this mindset.