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Please ignore my foolish pride I would chose not to hide How I hate to wear this mask If only I wasn’t so afraid to ask I would chose not to trick And present you my true speak How I wish to show my true nature How I hope to show my raw soul And to you display the real creature All my substance as a whole I desire to be me more bluntly, To be me in every event Without concessions without being frightened I aspire to be honest with me and you I desire to be seem by another Beyond this distorted mirror image Projected to hide myself. But instead of this In my cowardice I wear this glittering mask for you And a myriad  more for others Always replacing the previous by the latest Discarding the empty disguise Aspiring to be the object of desire for you and to the rest Enchanting you and them with my dazzling superficial illusion   With my mundane and trivial artifice, Full of shinning nothingness Don’t be fooled by my  art All my endurance is contrived Don’t be misled by my composed carapace Behind my foam facade Lies  a turbulent stream of violence Can’t you distinguish? Squeezed by the compressing margins   In my core there lays hurt and anguish I plead with you to see me beyond my illusion There are some many disguises inside the confusion. And you will not distinguish  my true me I crave to be ultimately free How I yearn to pull this mask, And peel away my fake camouflaged skin And show everybody my emotional scars my imperfections All this fear of rejection When every neighbouring glass ceiling  starts to fall I want to be on the outside Naked, nothing to hide Shameless to show it to all   Without consequence assuming who I’m In plenitude in a unyielding way But I can’t count on me for this, my will is frail Nonetheless you my friend must prevail And so incapable of performing this worthy task, I relay on you To rip away my mask Allowing  to see me trough Accept me with my flaws I will gratefully receive yours Tear my mask with your claws Heal my soul were it sours Freed me of my emptiness See me for who I’m Fill me with wholeness Trough away this hologram
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Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 8:03 AM UTC
Identity crisis
Please ignore my foolish pride I would chose not to hide How I hate to wear this mask If only I wasn’t so afraid to ask I would chose not to trick And present you my true speak How I wish to show my true nature How I hope to show my raw soul And to you display the real creature All my substance as a whole I desire to be me more bluntly, To be me in every event Without concessions without being frightened I aspire to be honest with me and you I desire to be seem by another Beyond this distorted mirror image Projected to hide myself. But instead of this In my cowardice I wear this glittering mask for you And a myriad  more for others Always replacing the previous by the latest Discarding the empty disguise Aspiring to be the object of desire for you and to the rest Enchanting you and them with my dazzling superficial illusion   With my mundane and trivial artifice, Full of shinning nothingness Don’t be fooled by my  art All my endurance is contrived Don’t be misled by my composed carapace Behind my foam facade Lies  a turbulent stream of violence Can’t you distinguish? Squeezed by the compressing margins   In my core there lays hurt and anguish I plead with you to see me beyond my illusion There are some many disguises inside the confusion. And you will not distinguish  my true me I crave to be ultimately free How I yearn to pull this mask, And peel away my fake camouflaged skin And show everybody my emotional scars my imperfections All this fear of rejection When every neighbouring glass ceiling  starts to fall I want to be on the outside Naked, nothing to hide Shameless to show it to all   Without consequence assuming who I’m In plenitude in a unyielding way But I can’t count on me for this, my will is frail Nonetheless you my friend must prevail And so incapable of performing this worthy task, I relay on you To rip away my mask Allowing  to see me trough Accept me with my flaws I will gratefully receive yours Tear my mask with your claws Heal my soul were it sours Freed me of my emptiness See me for who I’m Fill me with wholeness Trough away this hologram
looking to define myself
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Australia
Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 8:03 AM UTC
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