The Awful Truth: Beau Taplin

You will never be the person you are meant to be, you will never achieve the goals you have set for yourself, and you will never find the love you so desperately search for, if you do not first believe you are worthy of such things.

Here is the text of the poem by Beau Taplin. beau taplin the awful truth

This is the awful truth. We are raised on the myth of "compromise," but Taplin exposes the lie of fundamental incompatibility. You cannot force a square peg into a round hole with enough love. The poem suggests that the most mature act is often the most painful: walking away. You will never be the person you are