borrowed emotion

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Joined: 2001/09/25

i don't have the write words

to show what i know

just enough to let you know

i'm listening

i was raised to be an actor

but i try so hard to write

(an actor without borrowed emotions?)

i'd speak from experience

but all my experiences have been

kept to a stage

never become a manufactured product

acting is a good buy

safty is a number

can you count that high?

i'd like to break out of what i know

how far could that take me

it's a mad world out there

take no prisoners

learn to smile

when your scared

just get by

this is survival on the fittest

and i fit right in

with my confident walk

and my plastered smile

who knew my happiness was

a paper

catching my thoughts

you'd never guess

but behind this smile

inside this borrowed emotion

is just me

i'm not what you see on that stage

don't congratulate me

for acting

congratulate me

for thinking

for myself

Author's Notes/Comments:

i don't know if i like this... i watched grease last night. then one my school did. it ws very good. i was proud of myself... it just made me realize how comfortable i am there. i don't want to be congratulated for something that is so comfortable for me. acting is easy. acting is how to get noticed in my family... writing, now there's a trouble for me. that's diffcult for me. i think that's why i do it.