Poem

My Identity

 

Cong, Yisel. "My Identity." Poemhunter.com. 2007. 1 May 2009 .

 

“My Identity” by Yisel Chong

 

So lost deep inside, 
Is all that makes me.
My true identity, 
Is hard to see.
To my friends and family, 
I’m a different me.
I have a secret identity, 
Wonder if you’ll ever see.
My thoughts and actions, 
Are all that makes me, 
But some things I may do, 
May not describe me.
Now look inside me, 
If you ever feel, 
like it, 
I’m no-one but me, 
Never hiding my identity.
Don’t say I am hypocrisy, 
Because I never showed you, 
two of me.
Now please, 
Look at me, 
Try to see the real me.
I’m no-one but, 
my real identity.
All full of beauty, 
Inside me.

 

This complicated poem is about someone with a struggle of a true identity and a false identity. The first half of the poem it talks about the “lost” part of him is his true identity that “is hard to see.” He does not let people see his true identity because it is a secret. The other half of the poem then contradicts the second half by saying he never hides his identity, and that he is “no-none but my real identity.” This is probably the secret part of him that is lying about being true. Maybe it describes how people say they are someone they are not.