What happens if I say it?

I ask myself this question

And yet, I already know the answer.

 

I can say goodbye

To my family and my friends.

Goodbye to the life I have known.

 

But something inside of me

Is dying to speak the words out loud,

Dying to tell them who I really am.

 

I am torn.

Do I keep everything that I have ever known

By hiding who I really am

 

Or do I give it all up

To be the person that I am inside

To love the person that I love.

 

I speak to the only thing

That I know will listen no matter what

But the paper never speaks back to me.