We Lose Ourselves to Who We Truly Are - POEM

We Lose Ourselves to Who We Truly Are

We spend years building walls,

painting smiles on mirrors,

learning to walk like others,

to speak without our voice.

We follow roads lit by borrowed light,

chasing dreams not our own—

hoping they'll lead us home.

But one day, something breaks—

a silence becomes too loud,

a tear escapes when no one's watching,

a truth stirs beneath the skin.

And in that quiet moment,

we begin to fall…

Not into darkness,

but into something raw, something real—

into the forgotten parts,

the wild, unshaped soul.

We lose ourselves,

only to find the one

we were too afraid to be.

Not perfect.

Not polished.

But free.

And finally,

true.