Missed Storge

My thoughts skewed by past pressures,
I am afraid to be seen.
Scared you’ll take storge for eros,
but that isn’t what I mean,
that’s what strangers have seen.

So I’ve taken this devotion,
This urge to be kind,
Keep it secret,
Keep it safe,
But it was never even mine.

Could valid criticism ever be made?
I’m tired of hiding my Self by pretending to be strange.