192 I’m Nobody, Who Are You?
Emily Dickinson
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ‘s a pair of us — don’t tell!
They ‘d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Source:
Poems by Emily Dickinson Three Series, Emily Dickinson, Public Domain