Launchorasince 2014
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Who?


The word "who" is a pronoun if we go by grammar

And it's a pronoun that I use quite a bit

A questioning word like an unending stammer

In my head, a stuck record, a one time hit.


I try to figure out what context to use it

And think and think, and then think a bit more

I play back the details in my head like a skit

As if I haven't done that a million times before


By now you're done reading this boring soliloquy

And yes that's a loner speaking when nobody is listening

I don't need alcohol to be slightly tipsy

There are many people who will find this uninteresting 


I ask myself "who" because I'm still looking out

For that person inside that I lost long ago

I'm trying so hard, and I just want to shout

Because she's in there somewhere, and somehow I know.


Someday I won't care about how people judge

About who I am and who I want to be

And even now I say I don't give a fudge

But that's not true, don't you see?


I don't want to live my life as somebody else

A person that's not even there

I ask myself who I ask myself when

And, yes I really do care.


I want to be accepted as who I am

But first I need to find out who that is

A person is not something you can learn

Like an exam, a test, a pop quiz


It should be easy to know oneself

But I guess the jokes on me

Because I'll keep asking myself who I am

Until I find the key.