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Believe Who I Am

April 29, 2012
By Christy Malina BRONZE, Erial, New Jersey
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Who am I?
I am, who I am, to be.
To be, I can not see.
And to see, is to see in disbelief.
Believe who I am,
I am who I've seeked.
Yet I had never sought to seek.
Seek now in silence peek...
And I forever hold my peace.

For I can not be outspoken,
or words be unbroken.
Broken be, and you shall see...
I am, who I am, to be.

© Victoria W., Arcadia, CA

The author's comments:
I was tired of being judged and being told who I should be. I was always scared to show others who I truly was and this poem allowed me the chance to allow myself to open up to others and to ignore those who judged me.
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