I need to be ME

I need to be true to myself.

I am not this person who wears this armor all the time.

I am not cold or distant.  I am not manipulative

I am warm and loving.

I want to take this armor off.

I feel.

I want. 

I need.

I am.

I feel love and pain and joy and fear and a million other things that swirl through my crazy busy head so fast it is hard to keep track of them all. 

I want to feel safe to be me; honest, open, warm, loving, funny, obtuse, irritating, creative, anxious and a million other things.

I need to be treated gently, communicated with clearly and loved unconditionally.

Because I AM ME.