Poetry thread

Here you are one more. All 5 are different, you can play with line length and rhythm. Perhaps I should read what you're supposed to do.

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Who are you, who are we, am I what you think you see?
Do I know, what I show, can I really let it go?
Am I me, how to see, can I find the strength to be?
Feel the strain, just a game, can't know who or what to blame.

Seek to please, and appease, must try not to fail or seize,
Merge with you, I did too, lost myself I don't know who,
Value me, atrophy, unseen bars, lost on your sea,
Fake facade, skin not real, who's this person that you feel.

Think a lot, replay time, all a part of looking fine,
House of cards, built on sand, robustness was not planned,
It will come, out the blue, burnout's tendrils reach for you,
Feel its claws, shifting floors, around you doubt grins and gnaws.

Functions fail, no not mail, to the pile the throw does sail,
Talk is weak, how to seek, words I need and want to speak,
Getting hard, cannot guard, fears attack the house of cards,
Not so grand, thoughts unplanned, wash away the roots of sand.

Now laid bare, too much care, it all seems to be unfair,
Rest you must, sleep do trust, time does drift and turn to dust,
Answers sought, thoughts are fraught, but good ones now must be caught,
Number one, you've become, the only way this will be done.

Oh to know, what's below, once the mask is gone from show,
How to find, must be kind, to myself and to my mind,
Nervous strings, gentle things, observation knowledge brings,
Balance found, lesser sound, light reduced and feelings ground.

Here you are one more. All 5 are different, you can play with line length and rhythm. Perhaps I should read what you're supposed to do.

.

Who are you, who are we, am I what you think you see?
Do I know, what I show, can I really let it go?
Am I me, how to see, can I find the strength to be?
Feel the strain, just a game, can't know who or what to blame.

Seek to please, and appease, must try not to fail or seize,
Merge with you, I did too, lost myself I don't know who,
Value me, atrophy, unseen bars, lost on your sea,
Fake facade, skin not real, who's this person that you feel.

Think a lot, replay time, all a part of looking fine,
House of cards, built on sand, robustness was not planned,
It will come, out the blue, burnout's tendrils reach for you,
Feel its claws, shifting floors, around you doubt grins and gnaws.

Functions fail, no not mail, to the pile the throw does sail,
Talk is weak, how to seek, words I need and want to speak,
Getting hard, cannot guard, fears attack the house of cards,
Not so grand, thoughts unplanned, wash away the roots of sand.

Now laid bare, too much care, it all seems to be unfair,
Rest you must, sleep do trust, time does drift and turn to dust,
Answers sought, thoughts are fraught, but good ones now must be caught,
Number one, you've become, the only way this will be done.

Oh to know, what's below, once the mask is gone from show,
How to find, must be kind, to myself and to my mind,
Nervous strings, gentle things, observation knowledge brings,
Balance found, lesser sound, light reduced and feelings ground.