American poet John Godfrey Saxe creating his own version as a poem, with a final verse that explains that the elephant is a metaphor for God, and the various blind men represent religions that disagree on something no one has fully experienced.
I think she means that you'll always be your true self, but some people just try to take that away from you. I relate to this because I want to be my true self, but sometimes people get in the way of me trying to be myself.