Hearing for the Theatrical

Can I keep doing this?
Can I keep writing these?

Do you ever create
Something
You don’t really
Connect with

But you just hope others do?

Like singing a song
You don’t know the words to
Can you hear that it’s fake?

Can you hear that I don’t usually write poetry?
Can you hear my struggle?
Can you hear my desperation
To be like the others

Can you hear it giving away my lies?
What is more honest?
Detecting a lie
They knew you would detect
Or believing they wouldn't lie
To you

I don’t know
I just know I struggle to make things rhyme
I want you to hear the lies
I want you to know I’m trying
To be one of you

But I don’t want to be one of you…

You see
I’ve gotten distracted by what I’ve heard
Distracted by the things whispered into my ears
My job is not to please you
It’s to prove myself

And sometimes it’s really
Hard
To remember this

So I repeat in my head 
That what I hear
Is not what I must make others hear
That I don’t have to pass on 
The voice of the masses

Sure I’m just one voice
But who says I have to sing the same song 
you are all singing?