Shed my skin and fall away,
Just to begin another day.
Fall through the cracks of society,
Never even noticed, everyone blind to me.
I am here but no one knows my name;
No one looks at me or sees my pain.
I am invisible to everyone around me;
My face you walk past and never see.
You don't see it in the hallways or in your dreams;
You don't see that I am ripping at my seams.
My skin is peeling off my bones;
No one hears my moans or groans.
They are kept on the inside, never let out,
Muffled by the sounds of my anger and doubt.
Living like this I will never succeed;
Keeping everything on the inside as I watch myself bleed.
This skin I wear will not hide me anymore.
I’m going to come out, show my true core.
I’ve hid myself away for far too long.
Everyone needs to know ME now, know what's wrong.
I will overcome this part of my life; get through it to another day,
Then anyone that knows ME, will finally have something to say.
I am never spoken to but that will change.
This new life I am beginning will at first be strange
But I will start it, and I will get over this one.
Everything I do, will just be everything I’ve done.
The scars from my past will never disappear
But I will embrace this new life with nothing to fear.
The scars remind me of what I once had, what I let go,
All my hard work, and nothing left to show.