Hide and seek
Hide and seek was my favorite,
I was so good at it,
even now,
no one,
can
find
me.
Hiding in the bathroom stalls with
my heart threatening to give out
I think I forgot to eat again.
Hiding in the classroom with
my head in a book
I could never sleep at home.
Hiding in the halls I had my
headphones in, the music
so loud that I hoped it would
make my ears bleed.
My therapist said to me
High school isn't your time.
You'll shine somewhere far
from here and I'll be so
proud
College seemed to prove
her right.
Hiding was irrelevant
suddenly I was everywhere
people saw me instead of
seeing through me
and no matter how hard
I tried or how hard I cried
to blend into the
background
I couldn't.
I guess hide and seek was really
just that I was hiding waiting
for life to seek me out
and smack me across the face
so that I could learn for the first
time that I should
live in the present.