GORDON WARREN
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  • About
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    • Performing >
      • Gallery
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    • Sports/Coaching >
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    • HIV/AIDS & ME >
      • LASS & ME
      • Comments about me
      • LASS Gallery
  • Poems
    • War/Violence theme >
      • 'Futile Death of Two Sensible Soldiers'
      • 'War Becomes A Habit'
      • 'Violent Contradictions'
      • 'Getting My Way Down The Barrel Of A Gun'
      • 'Rally Round The Flag'
    • Political / Social Affairs theme >
      • 'Down South'
      • 'Whose Freedom?'
      • 'For I Knew No Better'
      • 'Where Were We When We Needed Each Other?'
      • 'Twelve Long Months'
      • 'Fortress Wapping!'
    • Gender theme >
      • 'Whose Image?'
      • 'Just An Ordinary Woman'
    • Relationships / Personal theme >
      • 'Faded Dreams'
      • 'Times Change, Memories Remain'
      • 'You Are What You Are'
      • 'We're Walking A Tightrope'
      • 'Conundrums In The Park'
    • Isolation / Addiction theme >
      • 'Behind The Curtained Fairy-Tale'
      • 'If The Child Inside Could Speak'
      • 'Confined in the Mind'
  • Writings
    • Haiku
    • 'Redundant No More'
  • Radio
    • 'Why I Like Radio' Poem
    • HFM Shows 2015 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2015 (1 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2015 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2015 (3 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2016 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2016 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2016 (3 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2016 (4 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2017 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2017 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2017 (3 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2017 (4 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2018 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2018 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2018 (3 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2018 (4 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2019 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2019 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2019 (3 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2019 (4 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2020 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2020 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2020 (3 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2020 (4 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2021 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2021 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2021 (3 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2022 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2022 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2022 (3 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2023 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2023 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2023 (3 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2024 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2024 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2024 (3 hr)
    • HFM Shows 2025 >
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2025 (2 hr)
      • HFM (Show Covers) Playlists 2025 (3 hr)
    • HFM Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show >
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2016
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2017
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2018
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2019
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2020
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2021
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2022
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2023
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2024
      • Regular 'Musical Mystery Tour' Show Playlists 2025
      • Featured Artists
      • Classic Songs - Feature
      • 'Musical Location Stop-Overs' >
        • 'Musical Location Stop-Overs' - 2016
        • 'Musical Location Stop-Overs' - 2017
        • 'Musical Location Stop-Overs' - 2018
  • Photography
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YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE

We both met each other, and both our lives were changed.
The future could be better, but the past it still remains.
Today we were together, but your ghosts were in the room.
Haunted by the memories, that never leave alone.

People beating you, and knocking you around.
Abusing your body, doing you down.
Saying hurtful words, that stick in your gut.
Making you feel bad, no future, no luck.

Some might want to change you, to mould you, to sculpt you.
To fit their own image, to copy their model.
But you can only be you, if you believe in yourself.
You can be so beautiful, if you trust in who you are.

What’s inside is what really shines through.
You’re a beautiful person, don’t do yourself down.
You’re caring and honest, warm, bright and real.
Believe in yourself, for you are what you are.

But you are what you are, not how others might see you.
You can only be you, not what others might want.
You’re not an illusion, a dream, or a vision.
Be proud of who you are, believe in yourself.



Copyright: Gordon Warren (1990)


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