‘You don’t know the real me’ by Annabel Burt

The version of me that you know

Is not the truth – it’s just for show.

I’m living two lives, split in disguise,

One built of smiles, one built of lies.

 

If you saw beneath the mask I wear,

You’d see the cracks, the vacant stare.

A butterfly once bright with gleam,

Now flying past – a fading dream.

 

The girl you see is made to fit,

A careful act, a counterfeit.

The girl you don’t – she breaks with ease,

Her strength dissolves beneath the tease.

 

I wander halls inside my mind,

Searching for pieces I left behind.

A scattered self I try to trace,

A ghost that time cannot replace.

 

Sometimes I dont even know how I feel,

But I know the girl you know is not real.