Missing Person

I want to be

What everyone else

Sees

Can anyone tell me

How to be me?

This young woman

Courageous

Smart

Witty

And utterly lost

In transitioning

Of skins

From chubby

Emotional

Youth

To flabby

And deflated

Cynic

Help me to find

That young woman

You all keep

Talking about

A glimpse here

And there

Though she always seems

To evade me

And I can never find her

Anywhere

When I need her most

Maybe when

I am old or dead

She will come around

Asking me where I have

Been