"Nobody Knows"

Erin
Lee Middle and High School
Berkshire County, MA

"Nobody Knows..." by Erin Lee Middle and High School Berkshire County, MA This video was taken at the 2014 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest Winner Event in St. Louis, MO on April 16th, 2014. Read the poems of all 2014 winners at 7gp.org.

Nobody knows who I am.
When the doors are closed.
When I am in a room by myself,
I pretend to be someone I want to be.

When I am listening to music,
I see myself on stage
In front of thousands upon thousands of fans.
But nobody knows that.

When I am looking at quotes,
I see those quotes as tattoos.
I see myself covered in tattoos.
But nobody knows that.

I see myself as a lot of things.
A singer/songwriter.
A fighter.
A tattoo artist.

But nobody knows that.

I am someone who overthinks everything.
And I have no idea what to do.
To stop it.
Or what to do about it.

I am afraid to be me because I don’t know.
I don’t know if people will look or think of me differently.
I don’t know if people will like me anymore.
I don’t know if they will think that I am crazy.

But that’s what I am.
A crazy, antisocial, ratchet, dark person.
That is the person that I am and the person that nobody knows.