Poems that I wrote as a teenager "ME"

It's funny..sometimes I still feel like this..

"I smile and laugh on the outside, but inside I'm hurting and crying. I know I must accept growing up and becoming an adult, but sometimes my heart yearns to become a child again. I speak out in words don't mean anything to me, and hide my true feelings and thoughts inside of me. People say that they know me but not really at all, for the real me is lost somewhere down deep in my soul.

All of us play many different parts, and hide our true feelings inside our hearts. We loose a lot of our true identity when young, to start playing the games that society begun. For sometimes we feel we must put on an act, instead of standing up for ourselves, and showing people where were really at. Sometimes, we wish that we were that or this, or him or who, instead of accepting that I am I and you are you.

We must be ourselves all of the time, and let out our laughter, and not be afraid of crying. We should not be afraid to be a child once in awhile, to reach out and touch someone, to let out our smile. To listen to others as much as we can, for we all have our stories, and not necessarily with beginnings or ends.

I write these words, for this is how I feel, words I hide inside myself, instead of speaking out loud. "But if you just touch me soft and gentle, if you listen to my story, I will grow, really grow. Written by Teri Larsen McShane..2/20/1973