To Be Somebody

it is nice to be somebody
like that great man

but it is too sad
too harsh and annihilating
to lose myself just to be somebody

now i like being nobody
it is me and there is no other

i can sit
and just be alone gazing at all of them
panicking

to be that great somebody.
i smile. i am cool. i am myself

and you still love me.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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