NaPo/GloWriMo - Day 16

 April 16, 2023 - write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like.

I am...not

I am not 
who you think I am
I never was
who you wanted me to be

I do not apologize
for wrongs I have not committed
I do not pretend
to have done things I haven't

I do not bend
for things I don't believe in
Nor do I lie
    or cheat
        or steal

You wanted someone complicit
You will not find that in me
You wanted someone
who would drop their life
    for yours

I do not believe
in compromising 
    the best that I can be
for the worst
            that I would become