the 'real us' that other people see
unless of course that's not really the 'real us'.
The 'real us' may be trapped deep inside
we may be deliberately hiding the 'real us'
behind a mask
or behind our best defenses
for some reason which is not best known to us.
We might not think we like the 'real us'
and so mask it with a different someone
maybe a someone we think we'd like to be
a someone we'd prefer to be over the someone we are
and so ensues a battle
a battle between the 'real us' inside
and the pretend us outside
we become two people
the person we are
and the person we think we should be
when all we really want
is the outside us
to be the same
as the inside us
...don't we?
