Mask

Mask
2/25/2016

What kind of Mask - do you put on?
What kind of Mask - have I?
And is it a Mask an observer
Could easily push aside?

It is -- you say? How charming.
Do you -- Honestly -- believe that's so?
I find your argument - lacking --
Because of the things I know.

My Mask is - one of Smiles -
It doesn't often crumble away.
I often push aside my Hurt,
This Mask I wear everyday.

The casual observer won't notice,
Or even - Care - to look.
And even the ones' I Love the most --
My pain most overlook.

So don't tell me your mask is obvious,
Stop -- Lying -- to yourself --
Because it hurts and hurts and nothing works --
And it further wounds your soul -

Take Off That Mask

Take Off That Mask

Date Unknown

She was always hiding

Behind her veil of make-up,

I was her friend so

I said, “Please take off that mask.”

She refused to listen,

We started falling apart,

Her eyes no longer glistened

Behind that awful mask.

I just couldn’t stand it,

She always tried to hide.

She said she wouldn’t be popular,

If she took off her mask.

She yelled at me

When I suggested it,

Why couldn’t she see?

All her make-up is is a mask.

She claimed she needed the make-up,

Without it she was ugly,

She would cry on my shoulder,

But she kept the mask.

We really began to separate,

We saw less of each other,

It was lonely at night

Thinking about her mask.

I pleaded her to take

Off her layers of guilt,

Piled on with make-up,

That is now her mask.

Her true self is hidden

Under those awful layers,

If only, if only

She’d take off her mask.

We shared a bond

That shattered into pieces,

We walked a different path,

Mine without a mask.

I still miss her sometimes,

But now I’m over it,

But even in my dreams,

I still see her mask.