When I was younger I always tried to be someone I wasn't. When I watched a show and loved a certain character, I would try to be like them. If a character was quiet I would be quiet for days, if a character was loud I would be obnoxious for hours on end. The problem with this was that I was always dubious. I never got to know who I was, myself. The older I got the bigger the problem grew. I made people think a certain way about me.
I stained my past.
Now I'm afraid I'll stain my future.
YOU ARE READING
Counting Steps
PoetryThere are a lot of things that try to make there way out but always find a way to stay in. So here, behind a screen, protected in the fortress of sheets surrounding me, I can say anything. Anything at all.
