Everything doesn't go as planned. This we know. In a world that is so image-based, it's easy to lose yourself while trying to please everyone around you. It can be hard to stay true to yourself, and maybe you don't even know how to act if you were to try and stay true to you who are. And that's scary. Here's a poem about losing yourself and piecing yourself back together.

It may appear that way,

but you knew the reality.

Everything was not fine

and dandy

all the time.

Trying to keep that image

you believed would bring you happiness,

only tore you down.

And it tore you down hard.

While trying to please everyone around you

and your imagination,

you lost yourself.

And eventually,

lost those people you tried so hard to please.

If you were trying so hard,

why did you lose them?

Maybe they could see right through you.

They could see the juxtaposition

of who you really were

and who you were trying so hard to be,

and they couldn't keep up.

Not only did you exhaust yourself,

but those around you.

Now what?

You're left alone

with only you

to pick up the pieces of what you have broke.

And boy is it a lot.

But look at you know.

You made it.

You picked up those pieces.

At least as much as a person could.

In that time between the brokenness and the fixture,

you thought you couldn't do it.

You thought your world was crashing down,

didn't you?

You thought nothing could ever go back to normal

and you would live a life of pain and mourning.

But this isn't the case.

And it wasn't the case all along.

You see,

when you stay true to yourself

and are real and honest

with those around you,

the universe keeps you on its master plan.

Allowing everything to work out

just the way it should.