Poems About Finding Yourself: How I Discovered Myself in These Verses
Do you know yourself? Have you found yourself? Obviously, there are moments in ordinary days when out of nowhere we begin feeling lost, disconnected from our own reality.
Read some highly introspective poems about finding yourself below, verses that speak to the soul with courage, convince us to come out of our shells and navigate through this beautiful, little world to find our own beautiful, cosmic selves.
Poetry can help you in these moments. Act as a compass. A mirror. Help you turn inward and reflect. Let’s do that.
Poems About Finding Yourself
Save Myself
Between the silence of the ocean
I search for you and find no one
Until I look at the boat that’s floating above me
And there, working the oars, I see
A shadow of you, leaving me behind,
Stranded, drowning for someone else to find
And is this what you’re always going to give me?
Permission to escape, but not a single door I can see?
Tell me, did I always mean so little to you?
Or if there was a time when you loved me too?
Did you ever mean to come to me to help?
Or was I always supposed to save myself?
-tanu
Who Am I?
Is it possible to meet yourself for the first time?
To hear your heart and ask, “Is this really mine?”
To run across yourself on a dark, lonely night?
To look in a mirror and say—What a beautiful sight!
To hear yourself speak and think, “Am I so loud?”
Is it possible to run across yourself in a crowd?
Can you really feel so foreign in your own skin?
Can you really self-sabotage; “Isn’t that a sin?”
Do you ever really hear your thoughts and wonder—
“My God, are they louder than thunder.”
Do you ever really sit down and think—
“I’m such a burden I’d let myself sink.”
Because sometimes suddenly out of the blue,
I ask myself—”Who are you?
You walk around like a machine all day
Is there any place you really want to stay?”
Is there anyone who really holds my heart?
Is there anyone who won’t tear me apart?
And this ghost in place of me, she’s torn.
Between love and hate, within her born.
She never stands still, always moving ahead
Not life, this in itself Is torture instead.
Because I’ve been a strange to myself for as long as I know,
Who I am, I do not know.
And if someone walks by and sees me too,
Gets me before even I do
Relief will make me fall to my knees
Emit a cry, a word of please
I’d sell my soul to know it then—
I’d beg someone to tell me who I am.
-tanu
Finding yourself again doesn’t have to be complicated. Read about it here.
Unstoppable Now
This one is my own war song.
The winter has hurt me, trodden so well over my feet
The snow has tried to douse the fire in my heartbeat
Yet in spite of all, I’ve still kept going indeed.
My heart is warming up, my skin feels thick
If glass breaks, then I’m building an empire of brick
This is real now, I’m done being a chic-flick
This year is the one, I’m turning eighteen
What I’m saying is exactly what I mean
I’ll be the greatest warrior this world has ever seen.
She wanted what she wanted, didn’t care how
A stupid dreamer, desiring more than anyone could allow
Well, get ready for me, world, because I’m unstoppable now.
-tanu
Phew. So glad I could share them. Tell me how you liked them. If you are already in love with my poetry (and me) check out more posts exclusively of my own-written stuff:
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