I started on this journey, to find myself.
To find the person I was meant to be,
the person that everyone kept saying they could see.
Who did they see? Because I can assure you it wasn't me.
*Mask*
I've been hiding behind my fears, not shedding any tears.
My smile has gotten faker and faker, trying to make up for who I wasn't.
I honestly don't know how I've gotten through all these years.
I've tried to find who I was, in the darkest of places.
Long nights searching my lover's faces.
Never could I find a trace of what or who I was.
Maybe I was what they made me out to be, the person that they always did see.
*NO*
What am I thinking, the person they have been seeing, she has no real meaning.
It took me so long to drop the act, to take off my proverbial mask.
It took a long hot summer, with endless nights, for me to finally get up the nerves to ask.
Ask myself who I was.
who was the person I had been hiding?
Who was this person behind her mask?
*Truth*
That person was beauty, daylight, she was smiles and storms. Everything that makes me, me.
I was so concerned about being accepted, that I never accepted who I was meant to be.
I'm not normal, and that's okay.
It's not for them to measure or say.
For I finally feel free, feel accepted in my own skin.
I stopped, living in fear of what might happen,
and instead embraced who I am, and who I want to be.
*Acceptance*
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Inside My Head -Short poems
PoetryCome, fellow readers, and writers. Take a seat, pour a cup of your favorite drink, sit back, relax and delve deep into the corners of this poetry collection. Including; Sonnets, Couplets, free verse and short, this book will have a variety to choose...
