inner-self

I don't know why
My life feels so wrong,
I don't know this hollow feeling
That eats me up from the inside out,
I don't know...

But I want to know
what I want,
what I feel,
what I did wrong...

I don't want to feel this
Vacant,
I don't want to be paralyzed;
When the whole world is humming with excitement,
I don't want to be
Overwhelmed, when I should be excited.

I don't want to be myself
Because I'm not who I am,
I want to be my inner-self
Who is acute and brave...
Yet,
I want me to be me...

Author's Note

What am I to say!

Reviews

[Senu Jayasinghe]

There are 3 faces to a person.
The person the world sees,
The person their family sees,
The person they see themselves as...
Yet none of them are ever the true version

[Tash Wills]

This poem is very moving- it makes me just want to say 'everything will be okay', while at the same time reminding me of how I've felt at times in the past. I really like the structure and the change in rhythm for the second verse. The only negative point I have is that I would change the "'cause" in the final verse to "because", but bad grammar is just one of my pet hates! You've done well here though :D