Contact
About
Staff
Staff Spring 2020 Issue
Staff Fall 2020 Issue
Staff Spring 2021 Issue
Staff Fall 2021 Issue
Staff Spring 2022 Issue
Staff Fall 2022 Issue
Staff Spring 2023 Issue
Staff Fall 2023 Issue
Archive
Contact
About
Staff
Staff Spring 2020 Issue
Staff Fall 2020 Issue
Staff Spring 2021 Issue
Staff Fall 2021 Issue
Staff Spring 2022 Issue
Staff Fall 2022 Issue
Staff Spring 2023 Issue
Staff Fall 2023 Issue
Archive
Search by typing & pressing enter
YOUR CART
Down
Issak Renner
Another day passes, I want to act as myself.
I want to be free of these things that hold me down.
Instead, I wear a mask, hiding from my desires.
When I try to be myself, my shyness holds me down.
People ask and the reply is always “I’m good,”
Inside is a sadness that I keep bottled down.
When I want to do something in public,
My self-awareness is my greatest letdown.
Sometimes I’m asked to take lead and make a plan,
My insecurity has me to ask others to put their ideas down.
I stay out of the crowd, out of sight and sound.
Changing my song and placing my phone down.
Someday I will feel safe, open to be myself,
Until then, I’ll stay keeping my head down.
Renner is a cadet at NMMI.