You Don't Know Me (Poem)

You don't know me

I have the same face

Wear the same clothes

Sit in the same seats.

I listen to the same music

Like the same movies

And laugh at the same jokes

But you don't know me

I hold back tears and screams in that face

I wear bandages, braces, and electrodes under my clothes

All my muscles are on fire, while I sit calmly in my seat.

I get 20 vials of blood taken out every month, while I listen to that music

I watch that same movie 20 times, because the pain doesn't let me concentrate

While I laugh at that joke, I want to scream, because there's chewing gum stuck in my brain. I don't even understand your words.

You know me.

You think you know exactly how I work.

You've known me for years.

I'm not the same person you used to know.

My life is a satirical movie, and you don't even know that you're the audience.

Then again, you know me.