"Yourself"- poem

Do you even remember

who you are?

are you still

who you used to be?

but who’s “yourself”, anyway?

have you ever known?

It’s not the you

who struggles

to impress the ones

who aren’t even impressive.

It’s not the you

who fakes smiles

to pretend you’re alive

in your own cage.

It’s not the you

who laughs to jokes

about your very own

self.

It’s you,

the one who lives

feelings,

not the one

who fakes them.

      (“Yourself”, Anne Maria)