I said that I was strong, <br />but that was just a lie. <br />Outside I may seem calm, <br />But inside I do cry. <br /> <br />You just never noticed it, <br />none of you really did. <br />This internal conflict <br />of myself I could not rid. <br /> <br />You think I'm untouchable, <br />but is that really so? <br />In fact I'm lower than you think, <br />it's a yes but you'd say no. <br /> <br />You never got to know me, <br />for I was too afraid. <br />Of being so called happy, <br />and then broken and unmade. <br /> <br />I'm sorry I have to do this, <br />but old habits are hard to change. <br />To be hurt and have to cry, <br />to me they aren't that strange.<br /><br />Mandy Lee<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/perception-32/
