Poem: Try

I try and try but it’s never enough
I study so hard to get all A’s
People just think I’m smart
They can’t see what’s happening behind the scenes
How much I try that it makes me hurt
People don’t see through the façade
All they see is a smart girl
A girl that doesn’t need to try and gets it easy
I tell my friends I got all A’s
They say I’m smart and they aren’t like me
That I shouldn’t brag to them that I got the grade I got
But they don’t understand
I try and I tried my hardest to get where I am
But they just don’t get it
No one gets it
My mom, my sister, my grandmother just don’t get it
They say congratulations but they don’t know what I had to do to get those grades
How hard I worked to make them happy
To get people to be proud of me
To get out of my sisters shadow
And just show them who I am
But then again
I will always keep trying
At this point
Trying is my personality
At some point, you have to get used to not getting seen
Nobody might ever see me
But at least I know
I’m trying