I Am Who I Am

• Chloe Mckie, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2010

I am the girl who can’t believe
But is still striving to succeed
I am the girl who thinks too much
Only to find she hasn’t thought enough
I am the deceptive deceiver
Fooling you all, the misleader
I am the feelings never expressed
and the one who needs to worry less
I am sworn to do what I have to
if it means my dreams become pursued
I am the temptation filling your heart
the paper when it’s torn apart
I am the heart that didn’t break even
happiness is what you believed in
I am a teenage girl
through innocent eyes I see the world