Can you SEE me?!?

Why is it so hard to accept what I already know?

Why do I make it harder than it should be?

Since I was young, I was taught how to act,

how to do what’s expected ——

But what if all of that is just a façade of who I am?

It’s so hard keeping up appearances,

yet so easy to fake it;

Nobody knows who the real me is,

Who the real YOU is;

We hide ourselves with the motive of

protecting and guarding who we truly are.

My fear?

No one is ever going to know who I am.

Can you blame them?

We live in a world trying to be

something that we’re not.

But, I’m done with all of this hypocrisy.

I have decided not to blend within

the shadows anymore. I know what

I have to do now.

Do you?