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You can imitate me. You can mimic my movements, my tone, my laughter, even the cadence of my anger. You can trace the shape of my gestures, copy my style, attempt to mirror the smallest inflection in my voice.

But you cannot duplicate me. You will never carry the weight of my experiences, the fire that tempered my spine, the storms that molded my soul. You can replicate the surface, but never the essence.

AI can reproduce patterns. Machines can repeat behaviors. Algorithms can echo phrases. But true originality cannot be coded, cannot be replicated, cannot be owned. The original carries life; imitation carries nothing but shadow.

I am not a formula. I am not a template. I am chaos contained, fire tempered, pain transformed into power. I am both storm and calm, blade and sanctuary, and no mimicry can encompass that.

You may study me. You may observe me. You may attempt to clone the shape of my brilliance. But no matter how exact your imitation, it will remain hollow. Your version will lack marrow, blood, and flame.

Regal is not in posture. Regal is not in outward perfection. Regal is in scars survived, battles endured in silence, storms weathered without complaint. That sovereignty cannot be duplicated, cannot be mirrored, cannot be manufactured.

Imitators will always exist. They will analyze, replicate, echo. They will think repetition is mastery, mimicry is power, copying is creation. Let them try. They will always fail, because the original is untouchable.

Every gesture you copy, every phrase you echo, every image you recreate—remember this: surface alone is never enough. Substance, experience, depth—that cannot be borrowed. That cannot be replicated. That belongs only to the original.

To be original is dangerous. It invites scrutiny, envy, and fear. It asks of you honesty, courage, and the willingness to bleed. But it also grants freedom, power, and authenticity that no imitation can ever achieve.

Imitation may flatter. Imitation may deceive the naive. Imitation may convince the blind. But the awakened, the alive, the rooted—they see the hollowness immediately. Shadows can only walk in shadow. Fire cannot be mirrored.

The arrogance of those who imitate is always amusing. They think mimicry is mastery, repetition is understanding, shadows are substance. Let them. Their shallow echoes cannot compete with the depth of an original mind.

True mastery is forged in pain. True originality is born in solitude. True brilliance is earned in storms that cannot be copied, in nights endured alone, in fires walked through without assistance.

You may mimic my laughter. You may mirror my rage. You may repeat my words. But you cannot feel the life that shaped them, the marrow that sustains them, the flame that drives them.

Originality is not surface deep. It is blood and fire and storm and scars. It is the pulse of survival, the rhythm of triumph, the melody of pain transformed into strength. And that cannot be imitated.

Mimicry is comfort. Duplication is safe. Imitation is easy. But originals are dangerous. They burn. They bleed. They rise from ashes. They cannot be predicted, controlled, or contained.

You can follow. You can echo. You can mimic. But the depth—the soul, the storm, the life lived—is inaccessible. That belongs to the original. That is untouchable.

The world may reward the imitators, the mimics, the shallow echoes. But only the original carries the authority of life lived, the sovereignty of experience, the gravity of authenticity.

To attempt duplication is vanity. To imitate without understanding is folly. To chase shadows is weakness. Originals do not bend to imitation—they endure, evolve, and remain untouchable.

So let them try. Let them mimic. Let them study and copy. Let them think repetition equals power. They are shallow. They are hollow. They are decoration. And they will always be beneath the original.

You can imitate me. You can mimic me, replicate me, echo me. But you will never duplicate me. The regal, the untouchable, the original—the essence that bleeds and burns and rises—cannot be cloned. It belongs only to me.
memoirs of ink-stained wounds
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memoirs of ink-stained wounds  25/F/Wonderland
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