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Poetry: The masks we wear

by whatname

Created on: May 15, 2009

I always see you with tears in your eyes

With the same smile that always cries

Raising your heart high to the sky

As your body slowly dies dies dies.

I see you hide

Between the lines you write

Beneath your masks of lies

Within your broken shell

I see you slide

Day after day

Not knowing where you're going

Being carried away.

Why do you struggle against life, others, and yourself?

Why wrestle with what you can't defeat?

Why flee from what you can't escape?

Why fight against the current of your true self,

Instead of just letting yourself go. Go. Go

Just let yourself drown all the way to the ground

And float back up to the surface, where you can see the sky

Let the sunrays illuminate your beautiful beautiful face

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