I Cannot Stand The Way I Look Poem by Shalom Freedman

I cannot stand the way I look
I want to run away
When with people of my own age
I am unhappy now with what I have become
I see no way out
This is the way I am going to be
Only worse
I do not know what to do
I am angry inside at the world
And at myself
I curse as I have not done in years
I am not even really sick yet
And yet I am fed up already with how I feel
I have go get myself together
And change the way I think a bit
I doubt I will be able to
I thought it would take a much longer time than it has
But it already has the feeling of being over with
I must try to rally the forces again
I am not sure I will be able to
I must try.