The Real Me

by Paige Collins

A Cassie poem. Cassie is thinking, after the war, can and will she be the same? Just read and review. Thank you. :^)

The Real Me

By: Paige Collins

Authors Note: Cassie point of view. She thinking after the war, can she and will she be the same person?

I wish I were someone else,

Is there someone else to be?

If I can't be someone else,

Why can't I be me?

The one who was normal,

But not normal inside,

Things happen,

Things make me want to run and hide,

I can't be the one I am,

I must be someone else,

To survive life's little questions,

And tests,

I have to feel things I don't want to feel,

I must accept who I am,

That part is real,

But I never thought things would happen to me,

To make me hurt,

War is painful,

Like a thousand angry words,

Can I still be me?

After all that is done?

Can I go on in life?

Knowing my true self is gone?

You may see the outside and don't really see,

You may have tapped into my personal things,

But you'll never see the true me,

Or my true thoughts, hopes, and dreams,

My life down inside, down really deep,

You may have seen me,

But you'll never know what I do or what I see,

You may have looked in my personal life,

And as I said before, you barely skimmed the real me.