Sometimes 2
Sometimes people expect so much from you that you
begin to give great effort in becoming what they
expect, forgetting your own self in the process.
You wake up one day and realize
that you don’t know yourself beyond them..
How do you deal?
Do you want to deal
or do you wish just to remain their puppet.
Somewhere in the midst of becoming
this “ideal” person, things on the surface change.
The more the things on the surface change
the things you hide become to large.
The more you hide the guiltier you feel.
The more guilt eats away at you
the more insane you become
until you are constantly hiding inside yourself.
When do you know it’s time for a change?
When you no longer recognize your own
face in the mirror it is safe to say
it is now time for a change.
When you are forever avoiding your own eyes
you realize you no longer know your own name
but you do recognize the perfection that
someone else created.
When you’re wants and needs are
repressed and shut away you begin to lose yourself.
In this, I have lost myself.
Tracy Burke
