Last week we featured a moving poem by Caitlin Schemmer. Caitlin has written a number of wonderful and inspiring pieces for us, and we’re honored to share a new poem from her titled “At My Core”
Dishonest with feeling,
slowly I let it fly out.
I expect, wrongly, to wake up tomorrow different;
but when I look inside: disappointment.
“Wave your magic wand and fix me”
but the magic has all gone,
spent up in youth and childhood.
I am broken at the core.
Limping along, pretending,
as we all do, that it is okay;
some do see me through my sane disguise.
“What happened to you?” the question goes.
Secretly I am relieved; someone like me!
But then the fear of being seen sets in,
“they will know my weaknesses” I know it,
and I know those will be used against me.
This insecurity rests on me comfortably,
find and filling the spaces in between;
in the cracks of my sanity.
How long will I be now, before breaking?
~ Caitlin Schemmer
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