I’m afraid for them to see the real me

If I step out from behind the curtain

Will I be what they want to see

I’m so uncertain

Can they see behind my fake smile

Or am I just a corrupt file

Long before it was so clear

That I was a dreamer who had no fear

Life came along like savage

The pain was anything but average

It hit like a bus

And I refused to discuss

The reasons I felt so alone

Because my pain was unknown

I was trapped in my thoughts

That built up like knots

I lived in doubt

Of a depression I’d never get out