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THE GIRL INSIDE OF ME
THE GIRL INSIDE OF ME
Written by Alana Cheng
All that I can feel
From inside me
Lies a girl that no one would see
By any means necessary
Of all that I have been through
Of having to be treated as
The the guy that I am not
But would always
Be looked at as one
Which would always make me
Feel like I would rather rot
For I have always been
The girl that has always existed
So deeply from inside of me
That would so consistently be
Absolutely invisible to the public eye
So very much to the point
Of where I’d feel like
I would rather die
By how no one would seem
To truly notice the real me
Of the girl that feels
So trapped in a box
And is trying so hard
To pick the locks
Of doing all that I can
To finally open up the closet door
So everyone can truly see
The girl inside of me
And so much more
Of what I’ve got to offer
And what I’ve got to say
If only I can be able
To openly do that today
As I have lived so deeply inside
Just waiting for the storm
To finally subside
As I have already been through
A chaotic and suffocating ride
Of not being able
To be loved so completely
As the girl that’s inside of me
And if only you were able
To truly open your heart
And your arms so widely
Then perhaps I can finally come out
As the girl that’s always been
So deeply in the soul
Of who I have always been meant
To so lovingly be
And how it great it would feel
To finally be able to have the chance
To so genuinely heal
From the pain
Of always having to be hidden
Away from the world
As the girl inside of me
Was always forbidden
To be seen at all so publicly
But perhaps someday
I will finally
Have the chance to come out
And live my life so completely
And I will finally be able to live my life
So genuinely and so happily
As the girl that I’ve always been
So wonderfully and so beautifully
As I finally won’t have to be
Just a girl that had to live so secretly
From deep down inside of me
