This is me

I’ll tell you the truth
I want you to like me
I say “This is how I am -
People can like me or not”
But it isn’t how I feel inside

We were meant to live 
In community
To know, to care, to like
Even love
Why then is it so easy
To judge -
To be jealous, envious, cruel?

It’s so easy
But it hurts

And I’m sorry

Because I do it too