Where did the life go

So innocent and perfect

Shy and always hiding

As I once was some time ago?

I’ve been opened up

More obstacles

More challenges

More fear

Facing days of excitement

Criticism and mystery

Creating my new horizons

I find who I want to be

How I want to be

And where

Though no one realizes

What they really see in me

As time quickly passes

Should I tell them my friend

Of all of what I’ve done

All of what I’ve been through

Up until today?

Have I been raped by people’s thoughts

Or tortured myself with confusion

Striving to be me

Shaping the way I live

Is it nothing more

Like you once told me

Only you are you

Vital to only myself

Exceptions made to no one

Youth has led me places

Orbiting in my head

Until I’m tired and weary

Enter my world of confusion

Follow the paths I have chosen

And there you will find me

Lost inside my little space

Should I return to what has been

To the way I was before

Shy and hiding

Locked in that little room

As the thought persuades my mind?

Although the password lays within

Spoken to set me free

Pulling me out of the cave

That binds me in my lost world.

Recognize that I can be me

Not the innocent one I was

Or shy and hiding away

Opening new doors for me

Walking in, holding hands with you.

09/24/2002

Author's Note: Something different. This is something that I would really like to see some feedback on. *Look really close at this poem....Tell me if you can see it.

Posted on 09/24/2002
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