Today I've been called
both sensitive and too thick-skinned,
both too quiet and too loud,
too smart and too dumb.
Today I've been told
I ask stupid questions,
I am a horrible person,
I am too cynical,
I am too naive.
I, as a person, am not good enough.
But I can’t report the bully—
because the person telling me these things
just happens to be myself.