What We Really Are

A person dark and treacherous 
as found inside my wild and worn
as winter heart, and seeing just
the cracked and shallow, devious 
and hollow things that leave me torn,
I give a kindness when I must,

I can't be what they think I am.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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