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Toni Nov 2014
Who am I? I ask.
I look at my reflection,
and ask, Who are you?
Lehua Lokelaulii Nov 2014
Can we really be who we want to be?
when we sit there every night thinking about what we want to begin with,
ending every night with no answer for ourselves.
So, how can we be who we want, when not even ourselves know what we want.
Echo Sep 2014
~They say be yourself,
But then again
...........
Who Am I?~
Seriously guys, I can't figure out my personality. It changes so much, but I think I'm beginning to know.
Anna Vigue Nov 2013
remember when
you fought to live
fought for our rights
freedom to give
remember when
out at sea
strong waves lashing
courage to be
a warrior fighting
for fellow man
keeping together
our selfish clan
fighting for
our right to be
our right to choices
right to be free
now to honor
your day at last
is it enough?
remembrance past?

I shall give you
every day
my past my future
in every way
I give you thanks
and all respect
every day
and somehow yet
I know that this
is not enough
you fought the war
with much rebuff
all the freedoms
I enjoy
the soldier grew
from a small boy
born to protect
and born to serve
perhaps it's more
than I deserve
Remember
White Flower Aug 2014
(Intelligence, capacity, how much attention you paid...)
Society puts everything to the test.
What if there existed
"The Quiz of Yourself"?

They'd all be the same,
though the keys could never be
- even for the couples, relatives or twins-
because they'd be based on how everyone is.

Some would choose the best answer,
the one society marks down as "perfection"
because they believe they're better than other.
Always wanting to be the main attention.

Others would leave some spaces emptied;
not knowing what answer suits them properly
(or mostly afraid to be judged by society
when discovering they're not same as any other).

(The selfish, the insecure, the humble...)
No one would get
100%.

It's the easiest, most difficult test.
Everyone tries to guess,
though it's based on themselves.
Lehua Lokelaulii Jul 2014
Be myself?
so you can judge me, right?
laugh in my face.
tell me i'm doing it wrong?
tell me i'm not living my life right?
but who are you?
who are you to tell me,
who i am?
Where am I?
Who are you?
This place is familiar
Yet unfamiliar at the same time

My body acts differently
The words I say are not mine
Who is controlling me?
This is not who I am

The walls are closing in
And I can’t breathe
I am not in control
I am no longer me.
I want to scream


I want to melt


I want to *****


I want to breathe


I want to survive


I want to sleep


I want to dream


I want to be more than I have been the past few days


I want to eat right and sleep right and exercise


I want to start being able to think enough to write things that rhyme


I want to stop saying "I want" all the time


I'm sad.
lerato May 2014
Sitting in a corner all alone
Refusing to talk and feeling cold to the bone
I have isolated myself from people
To keep safe from all the bad and evil
But this isn't really me

I'm driving all my friends away
And I know they'll stop trying one day
I'm alive but I'm barely breathing
But I know this isn't really me
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