Me

I’m not a fragile flower

And I don’t easily break

The walls I put around me

For my sanity’s sake

I cloak myself in toughness

And my weakness I disguise

My depth I make seem blacker

So seem shallower my eyes

They mirror not my soul

But the mask I keep inside

The shards my heart rejected

I delicately hide

My wounds I will keep covered

My scars I’ll barely show

And nobody will realize

What’s brewing down below

My steps are carefully taken

My breath are measured, all

I’ll never lose my footing

I’ll never again fall.