Shadows

Shadows
I want to be free,
I want to be rid of you,
I’m always there,
Your just too blind to see,
I look like you,
Talk like you,
But i'm not you.
I’m me
I'm my own person
I have wishes
Hopes
Desires
But being in your shadow,
I keep feeling like i'm going under.
I constantly hear
“Oh he looks just like you.”
And
“You sound just like him.”
I don’t want to be that.
I want to be me.
I want to be free to be me.
I want to express myself
I want to be me.


Comments

Bruce Boston's picture
The poem communicates a sincere emotion. Yet it doesn't do it in an original enough way. The language is too prosaic. It doesn't resonate as a poem should. It could also been more effective with some concrete images rather than so much I this and I that.

Bruce Boston

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