Conformity
It is your clothes
your accessories
your hair
Someone else's idea
you bought or borrowed
It's in your manners
your speech
your values
It's like rain sliding down glass
Drops break free
yet look and act the same
It is your instinct
your beliefs
your fate
It's left to right
black on white
riding beside lines
It is complacency
and action
universal and unavoidable
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