What I'm Worth

the support i feel around me
is foreign and unknown
but i'm seeming to like it
i feel i have a home

the friends i've made
were few and far between
but this friendship i now know
is i believe good for me

i used to bottle it in
but now i know to listen
for one good deed is not unnoticed
although perhaps anonymous

to finally talk and to be heard
for people to believe me
with the past that i've had
i thought it would never happen

to not be judged, but welcomed
with compassion and sincerity
to feel that sensation
that is now only too familiar

i feel that i can breathe
without counting in my head
i dont feel suffocated
that in the past i have

for encouragement is needed
support and security
because i may not have seen this
but i deserve to be free

free of pain, of grief and sorrow
to stop feeling sorry for myself
to be my own woman
to show the world what i'm worth