WHO THEY THINK
Each morning I wake up in a world that is not my own
I look in the mirror, but it isn't my face being shown
It's the reflection of makeup, smiles and lies
To hide the way I feel and silence my cries
I just follow along and play the part
Following depiction and not my heart
Everyone thinks I've got so much going
Love, happiness, and everything showing
Thinking I am so perfect and strong
But inside of me I know they're wrong
Because I'm ordinary, simple, and I'm just me
Not who they think or want me to be
I am just one person trying to live
Providing for myself, but always with something to give
But giving my all no matter where I stand
And when I get shot down, I always land
Because time is a healer in my life
Always managing to cure my pain and stife
Each day I come face to face with those who think they know me
But it's beyond the outside, what they can't see
The aspects of my life in the core of my heart
Which has mercifully been ripped and torn apart
By those in my life who have been so naieve
But yet so harsh when it's me they leave
I've always wanted to stand up for myself and in what I believe
Because all I want is to be understood
To show the world what I can do
And prove that I'm a person like them, too
And now I have courage, once the missing link
So they can know the real me, not who they think.
