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Who am i ?

Posted Mar 27, 2026 · 48 lines · 3 critiques

Who Am I?

A question asked in search of truth.
A broken mirror
reflects the many different parts of me.

The quiet observer,
learning and mimicking,
trying to fit in.

Constant exhaustion
without exertion.

An actor,
typecast in a role
I didn’t audition for.

A deep thinker
that thinks too deeply.

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Feeling the lows
and rarely experiencing the highs.

Walking through life
a step behind everyone else,
in an attempt to copy,
to be accepted.

I walk with heavy feet
but leave no print,
forever elusive,
hidden in the shadow
my performance casts.

Emotionally numb,
my range of feeling stunted.

Like a parcel game
at children’s parties,
my layers are many
to hide and obscure.

Like a Russian doll,
my outer appearance alters
to fit an acceptable construct.
Hidden deep is my truest self,
seen by few.

Self-preservation,
acted out in self-defence—
defence from sensory attack.

The poet using metaphor
to illustrate what my mouth
struggles to say.

A glimpse behind the curtain,
a hidden world of make-believe.

So who am I?

I don’t know—

The outline is traced,

……..but only in pencil.

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March 2026
29 Sun

Received a critique
on Who am i ? from @Geezer
"good similes. Very close to the mark for a great many of us. ~ Geezer. ."
29 Sun

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27 Fri

Received a critique
on Who am i ? from @Eliza
"We all struggle with our identities and self-acceptance at times. You have done a good job of putting these feelings into words. Some good similes too."
27 Fri

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Who am i ?
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Received a critique
on Cats at night from @Jane A. Rug
"you have company, cuz i (a sexagenarian) long experienced difficulty with traditional public school (no assassins then during the late 60's and early/mid seventies), but struggled horrendously and nearly got held back p…"
26 Thu

Received a critique
on Cats at night from @Geezer
"what you are trying to express, but I think that you can do better. Coming to rest beneath a parked car, not long stopped, to shelter from the rain, Maybe something like: Beneath the warm and ticking just stopped car, s…"
26 Thu

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