A Secret


Everyone keeps telling me
To love my body as it is
For this is my temple
As long as I exist.

Nobody seems to understand
Though I know it's not its fault
Every time I see myself
I hear the story not yet told.

All the words that haven't yet
Found the exit of my mouth
To tell someone that what they see
Fills my mind with doubt.

What I look and what I am
Seems to not connect at all
But because you don't understand
Back into myself I crawl.