SELF PORTRAIT

I imagine myself in a different way, a different picture,

From inside the way that I feel, not the picture I see.

Take a look in the mirror, my face not the same as I feel,

It seems that when I look, a stranger stares back at me.

When I walk away am I still the same as who I saw in there,

I create a self portrait from my thoughts of how I see me,

Not a mirror image that sets his eyes always back at me.

Keith Garrett