Ingrained

Certain habits are ingrained

From when you were a kid,

So though you’re grown, they’ve been retained

For things you always did.

 

Like if you’re sloppy or you’re neat,

Your age won’t likely change it

And if your diet leans towards sweet,

The years won’t rearrange it.

 

If you’re quiet, maybe shy,

It’s rare that you’ll outgrow it

And once a bully, you might try

To change, but you will blow it.

 

We learn when we are very young

From others we are seeing

And those we closely live among,

The varied ways of being.

 

And slowly we adapt and find

What self we’ll be presenting,

How others see what in our mind,

Which we can’t help preventing.