Maybe

This is a poem I wrote for my English final, we read each poem aloud and then had to guess who's poem belonged to who.  Does this one sound like me?

Maybe

Maybe I could have been a southern belle

All curls and parasols

Scarlett and hoopskirts

Flirtations at barbecues

Suffering bravely and romantically through the civil war

But my hair doesn't hold a curl, I don't know how to flirt, and hoopskirts make it hard to balance

Maybe I could have been a medieval princess

All trains and veils

Braided hair and arranged marriages

Jousts and tournaments

But I would trip over my skirts, I like my toothbrush, and knights never fawn at my feet

Maybe I could have been a Shakespearean heroine

All mistaken identities, dressing like a boy

Falling in love with the wrong person

Sharp wits and a sharper tongue

But I can never think of what to say, I stumble over my words, and I am awkward

Maybe I could have been one 's Jane's girls

All empire waists and spencer jackets

Bonnets and bows

Walking in the rain

Exchanging meaningful glances with the man in tight trousers across the room

Figure dancing my way into someone's heart

But I cannot dance, my looks are usually misconstrued, and walking in the rain makes my mascara run

Maybe I could have been Jo, or Elizabeth, Wendy or Anne

I could have written a book, almost married the wrong man, fallen in one-sided love

Maybe my life could have been tragical heroic romantical

Maybe, just maybe

But maybe, I am just me

Stumbling, tripping, hesitating 

Pausing, frightened, wavering, uncertain

Sitting on fences

Chewing on my finges

But maybe I can be me

Maybe that can be enough