No one knows the real me.

On the outisde, I smile, I grin, and I greet everyone

Everyone that has seemed to put me down

I hide behind a smile... I smile as if there was not a single problem in my life.

That is far from the truth.

I would be worthless ...

If I let everyone and everything get me down.

I would be nothing.

No one knows the real me

how hurt I am to grow up without a mother

A mother who gave up.

and a father who says he doesn't want you.

It seems as if the entire world is against me.

In a life where everyone has always told you that

you have to get them before they get you

is not a life I wanted to live.

In a world where greed, deceit and money is the key...

it seems as if there is no room for love and peace.

No one knows the real me.

The agony and hurt I feel behind my smiling face.

A smiling face that hides the fear of never being loved or guided.

But I manage to not focus on the odds of...