Personal Statements, And What They Mean To Me, Personally

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 reading into these lyrical riddles

That belittle me

And everyone who thinks they read

The Truth