Writing is Identity
Sometimes people don't see
Your true identity.
They get lost in the façade,
Who they expect you to be.
What society expects me to be.
I try to speak, but I am lost.
Just one voice in a sea of people.
Screaming,
Speaking,
But not being heard.
Secrets, swirl about me.
Threatening,
Haunting,
Teasing.
All locked behind my careful façade.
Locked behind my mask of insecurity.
So I write.
To say who I am.
What I feel.
Who I will become.
To tell others about myself.
I write, to lock in the bad;
Let the good free.
I write, so others may see who I truly am.
So they may look through their image or idea of me,
And see my true self.
I write.
And write.
And with my last breath,
I speak.
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