You Don’t Have to Change
By: Courtney Beck
What made you think
You wouldn’t have to change?
What makes you think
You’re above reproach?
Is it the degree to which
You’ve pinned your hope
On my desire to follow?
Who is holier than thou
When the world starts spinning
In its newest direction
And it turns out
You’re enforcing the drumbeat
of a song no one can move to.
The song you’re selling
is only as good
As the people who will dance to it.
And everyone taps their foot to a song
With a beat that their heart can hear.
Maybe your heart needs to hear this:
What makes you think you don’t have to change?
What keeps you believing you’re better
than this song we can’t keep from singing.
Courtney Beck Writes 