Everything I Am Poem by Patrick Derilus

I am afflicted upon with too much to worry....
More everyday demons I carry on to vanquishing
Come with self consciousness...
When in the mental, My insides are easily penetrated...
Afraid of rejection....
Insecure about the way I am....
I pray on to the next dawn to dark that I Must change...

But nevertheless, the turtle's shell is not so easily cracked....
Too close minded of a being that blocks out everything that comes my
way....
Physically one of the mightiest...
But Mentally a feeble dear in the woods....
Intending to fix what is wrong is easy....
But with endeavorance, It feels as if it is
To change to better my own.