Not Me
This is not me
I am not my bills or my shopping list
I am not the little girl that you see
I am not a portrait of who I once was
I am not someone you think you know
I am not a growing figure of myself
I am not a hidden soul
I am not the books I place atop my shelf
I am not your dirty magazines
I am not a toy to play with
I am not someone to hurt
I am not the paper I write to you on
I am not the phone you hold to talk to me
I am not an image that you like to look at
I am not a child that you can take advantage of
I am not the school I go to or the people I meet
and I am not an image of what you want to see
I am something much bigger and better
I am me
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Submitted on May 06, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABACDEFEGHIJAKLMANA |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 162 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
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