Truth

This piece is a string quartet I wrote about being true to yourself. It's often slow. It's often hard. It's never an easy thing to do.

I also wrote a poem to accompany this piece, so I hope you like it.



Truth

Being yourself is difficult
People say it’s easy
“Just be yourself”
But it’s not that simple

It brings pain
It brings sorrow
It brings change
But it brings joy
It brings truth
It brings purpose

All of a sudden
You have a reason to wake up
It will hurt to change
You might even lose everything
But for once you’ll have yourself
Not some fake version of you
But the real you

The person who’s kind
Even if they don’t know it
The person who inspires
Because they’re just themselves

The person that’s living

Not surviving

But living