Who am I?
Well that depends...
What's your moon sign?
I'll be your reflection
because people tend to like themselves.
None of me is really me.
I'm whatever I see on TV.
Don't hate me; I'm just copying
my favourite people's personality.
How can I come up with anything original
When I collect character traits like stickers.
I've cut up pictures
of celebrities from magazines
and pick and choose the ones to glue
onto me each day.
And I call it Fee.
But I switch the layout every week.
Different aesthetic, new colour scheme.
I guess there's a constant in the chaos... change.
I can be whoever you need.
I'm looking for a new story.
Give me a character and a scene,
I promise I won't make it boring.
I save images on pinterest
and pin them to a board.
A collection of a thousand others,
am I a fraud?
But I don't think anything's original.
Not really.
We're all influenced by each other,
even if you don't have BPD.
I am a collage, of fragments, of people.
My personality is an illness.
Is the disorder who I am? Or was there a personality there to begin with?
The pieces of others that make up me,
form a whole new identity.
So in the words of Peach PRC:
I've been told
I'm heavy to hold
And in the words of Fee:
The real me
can be
everything.
YOU ARE READING
HEAVY
PoetryIn this collection of poetry, Fee writes about their experience with mental illness, gender identity, relationships and finding themself as a seventeen year old.