Wall Flower

[RavenDelcor]

They thought me backward and bashful when I didn't know how to fit in. When I thought I fit in they thought me coy and demure. I am introverted and modest at times. I have receded from entering circles that seem not to be mine. They look and wonder about how retiring I can be and I usually say something self-effacing in a sheepish tone and become withdrawn.
Thankfully I am not as antisocial as they think. A lone person can be a lone-wolf. You know the one's whose purpose it is to be unsociable to catch what is on the wind. Because of that I seem a bit awkward, and if pointed out to me I seem a bit embarrassed. I am self-aware. That bothers people so they call me self-conscious and unadventurous.
I do not find surface conversation to be the best type of conversation so the surface talkers think I am unassertive because I listen. I don't know what sports they speak of, so I listen and do not interject. That gives me the tag of lack of enterprise, I don't keep up. Do they know what is underneath their need to be social?
I am inhibited. I am reserved. I am uptight. I am uneasy. I show what everyone hides, because I feel it in them all. And when I dance and they look on, fearing to do so; or when I sing and they look on, fearing to do so; they think I have a gift. I dance their energy. I sing their pain. They only need me to guard their hidden feelings as I walk among them.
What does not make sense is that they are me and I am them and as the song by the Beatles goes: "And we are all together."
If the meek inherit the world, they get the hidden parts first.

[RavenDelcor]

Thank you.

[RavenDelcor]

Thanks Luvy, good to see you with your name in tact. Have fun the writing will pop out!

[Zochitl]

I couldn't help but read this and enjoy it among the  furtive  time that I'm in right now, trying to overcome the pain   because of what has happened to me. But how beautiful you have put this on paper. Yes, you Lone Wolf, you listen and then act things out to your pleasure and grand that is to be able to do this. My heart is now filled with the joy I needed to continue. God bless you dear friend.

[RavenDelcor]

It makes me happy to know that this helped you find joy, that in itself is a blessing. Keep smiling!