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My Song of Myself
Trippers and askers surround me,
projecting onto me what they expect to view in who it is that I am,
seeing nothing but my grades,
an overachiever who is made whole by my lack of any athletic skill.
They see my skin color, my looks, my clothes, and assume that I must be insecure,
They see my friends, and my sense of humor, and assume that I must be desperate to fit in and impress.
But they are not the me myself.
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands who I am,
I am curled up in a book, escaping into fantasy worlds to avoid my own,
I am holding a cat in my lap, allowing my breaths to match its own,
I am the ocean breeze on my face,
I am fluid, never truly fitting any mold despite appearances,
Experimenting with makeup, clothes and hair to find a way to match my outside to my inner self, only to wash it all off when called.
The me myself only appears when I am alone,
Locked into my room,
Truly allowed to stare into the mirror, make faces, and laugh,
Acknowledging that what others think of me is but a series of elaborate masks,
Without which I am naked.
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This is a Whitman-Inspired fee verse that uses the same format and some of the same lines as Walt Whitman's "A Song of Myself."