We write personal statements To state things personally And to try to appear more Like a person to UC's But I hope that you see The eternal absurdity Of grading words on a paper To evaluate someone perfectly Because sometimes diction Can speak louder than fiction And sometimes lying rhymes faster While the truth drives constriction But the truth can be a beautiful thing even when the next line tends not to rhyme But for the truth to echo louder than similar syllables You need to watch the words And read deeper into what you're reading because while rhyming sounds better the meaning can be misleading Sometimes through writing We get carried away with the symmetry of sentences And we think with enough syllables we can reach the pinnacle Of what we think it really means Really means to be understood We paint a picture to appear more visual But only if that visual adheres to the same principles And I'm sick of r...