1. COOKIE CUTTER Elizabeth Jasmine

2. Cookie Cutter Cookie Cutter! Those Shoes Out. I look, it’s This color is in. are Everywhere

3. I want to break the mold My desire is to be bold I long for individuality Why must I hide in normalcy?

4. Yet, if I resist censorship, Do I relinquish friendship? What will other people see In the real me?

5. The me you would see Behind the mask Beneath the shell, Under the facade, Behind the curtain.

6. A Lioness bold and beautiful? A Wolf majestic and masterful? A Gazelle gentle and graceful? Or a chameleon: without a defining “BLEMISH”?

7. Will I forever attend a masquerade Where my hopes are snuffed out inside this gilded colonnade? Will the “MAGIC” show not end That I might reveal myself?

8. MUST I BE COOKIE CUTTER?