Just me, the chameleon
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Though I struggle to admit it
I am such a chameleon.
Ever changing my mask,
coiffure and demure,
to be what you want,
or you think I am,
or what you think I want to be,
other than just me, what I think I am.
Alone in my room, I ask:
"Who's that stranger?"
staring back at me
in the mirror
or reflected in the pond
in the secret garden.
It's the looking-glass self I see,
Not what I truly am, in reality.
For in a vacuum I'd expire to nothing,
quelled by uncertainty and doubt,
consumed by the turmoil of
tossing about all sorts of
possibilities about
What I am,
What I appear to be,
What I could become
What I appear the be, to others,
if only they were there!
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