the truth of it

You never really knew me
You see the shallowness of me
You see the facade I gave you
Buying into the hype and lies
My anger isn’t real
I’m hurting, curling up
Trying to protect me from you
There is a hole in my heart
Matched with a hole in my back
And I’m licking my wounds
Trying to keep you from seeing them
You always thought I was so strong
If only you looked deeper
You would see the truth of it
The failure, the misfit and reject