A/N: remember, not all poems have to rhyme.

I keep the feelings of all inside,

Only to give them what they seek.

They seek happiness, joy, excitement,

Confidence, reassurance, and love.

I give them what they want,

but they'll never really know.

How it feels to be in my world,

Hiding behind the happiness of others,

When all I want to do is cry.

Behind the barriers I have built,

Lives someone left behind.

A Major full of regret and guilt,

For those who did not survive.

A Second in Command who feeds off the adrenaline of the attack,

Helping the one he thought he loved gain more power everyday.

A Killer who feels the fear,

Of those who he has killed.

And even still behind him is someone who does not exist,

The brother of the girl who wept,

The son of the mother brokenhearted,

The boy who followed in his father's shoes,

The friend of the soldier who gave the news,

The soldier who did not come home,

The one who left his soul behind,

And lives now in a different time.

Behind these walls that he has built,

That boy can not be found.

The man that you see today,

Is very different now.

This man doesn't want to show who he truly is,

Not even to the ones who care about him most,

For he has been scarred far deeper than it seems.

I have been taught from the very beginning to hide my true feelings,

And by this rule I shall live.

For I am the Empath, living still,

Through all the trials that have plagued me.

I live each day in a climate of emotion,

Though my true feelings never escape.

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