“Deep”

Don’t try so hard to be deep,
There are simpler ways to speak,

But I crumple up my paper, 
Because there are many things to say,

It’s not that I’m trying to be “deep”,
The truth just comes out that way.

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When I write things to express myself,  I️ want to stay away from clichés as much as possible, although they sometimes fit in nicely with what I want to say. 

Other times though, it’s frustrating when I️ want to talk about serious issues and it comes off as me trying to be “deep”, aka inauthentic or fake. This leads to me to overthink my words and my work overall, and creates a cycle of changing my words and thus changing what I actually want to say. 

Does anyone else go through these feelings when writing?