I'm Dying Inside

self

Embarrassed of who I am

I try to be someone else

Like I have so many times before

But it doesn't work anymore

I've convinced myself that I'm happy

with the way things are

To keep going on like this

is just an ignorant bliss

I've desperately wanted to live

but my shadows keeps growing

Taking me away from who I am

Falling so far

before realizing it's taking everything

Not only the shame that I have
but the best parts of who I was

The embarrassment that I feel

doesn't need to be

the only part I choose to see

There is freedom in our imperfections

We hold the power to change how

we relate to this infection

That all that counts when we live

in a society that's taught generations

of fear of being ourselves and

showing our true emotions