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If I'm not being me,
Then who AM I being?
If you can't see ME,
Then who ARE you seeing?
When you say "Be yourself"
Is that the REAL ME?
Or simply the one that you want me to be?
Is it your nature to analyse me?
Or have I really lost my identity?
When we first met, how can you tell,
That it was ME that you met and not someone else?
How do you know that you were not deceived?
and seduced by a man masquerading as me?
Perhaps he disguised all my weakness and fear,
and told you the things that you wanted to hear.
Or maybe that was me and I am the fraud.
It can't be denied, It's the truth, I am flawed.
But it's painfully obvious, why can't you see,
That BOTH of these men are a part of me!
and if you love me you'll have to accept,
That there are parts of me that I can't just REJECT.
Whether you love me or not, please understand,
That you can't fall in love with half of a man...
Then who AM I being?
If you can't see ME,
Then who ARE you seeing?
When you say "Be yourself"
Is that the REAL ME?
Or simply the one that you want me to be?
Is it your nature to analyse me?
Or have I really lost my identity?
When we first met, how can you tell,
That it was ME that you met and not someone else?
How do you know that you were not deceived?
and seduced by a man masquerading as me?
Perhaps he disguised all my weakness and fear,
and told you the things that you wanted to hear.
Or maybe that was me and I am the fraud.
It can't be denied, It's the truth, I am flawed.
But it's painfully obvious, why can't you see,
That BOTH of these men are a part of me!
and if you love me you'll have to accept,
That there are parts of me that I can't just REJECT.
Whether you love me or not, please understand,
That you can't fall in love with half of a man...
This poem was inspired partially by the film "I Heart Huckabees", I got the original idea from character Brad Stand's reply to the statement: "You're not yourself". He replies "How am I not myself?".
Hence begins his existential dilemma... and mine.
It's also inspired by a number of romantic interests I've had of late.
Hence begins his existential dilemma... and mine.
It's also inspired by a number of romantic interests I've had of late.
© 2006 - 2024 TheBeautyofViolence
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I love this so so so much!
I honestly don't even have any words to say but that I think this is so well written and it just describes that feeling of being yourself, not being yourself and then questioning yourself so well. Its true nonetheless, that all of them are still you. There is no fraud, just a part of you.
I honestly don't even have any words to say but that I think this is so well written and it just describes that feeling of being yourself, not being yourself and then questioning yourself so well. Its true nonetheless, that all of them are still you. There is no fraud, just a part of you.