Believe in yourself

There is something within

don't count me out

I am the number

you can't figure out

don't bury me 

in my follies

although ignorance

nurtured and held

me hostage

don't throw the 

book at me

I am the pages

you need to read

I am the sower

I am the seed

soiled inside out

but yet, I breathe

you can lock

the door

but you can't

throw away the key

the only thing

that really matters

is that I believe

in me.