All That I seem

Disclaimer: I deny any ownership of Donatello, I really couldn't afford to keep someone like him.

I am more then what you see

Far more then what I seem to be

Added all together

What is left is me.

I try to be a ninja true

Not always an easy thing to do

The code of honour I adhere

So others need not fear

But long for peace and harmony

Not wanting to fight or kill

Passive and quiet, is my will

I work on crafts, projects schemes

Planning, plotting sometimes it seems

All my dreams work on me.

Hardly able to get them down,

My hands my mind forever creating.

Not once bearing a frown.

I love and care for family and friends

Though often we are worlds apart,

lives travelling to different ends

None of them truly knows what lies

Deep within my heart.

They are reflections of what I am,

What I was, what I long to be.

I know I have so much to give

Yet it will never be received

The differences in worlds apart

Means fear is sure to breed.

Conflicted torn in all I see and do

There seems no place for me so

In spite of all I can offer

All I know I can give

I need to keep to shadows

If I am to live

So I must do what I can. Wait

Biding my time.

Knowing I'm just a sum of all my parts

Beneath the still waters

A raging river runs.

The End