A look in the mirror
I feel so bare
Without my makeup
Without my filters
To hide my emotions
To show me I’m pretty too
“you are pretty”, my mouth says
But my heart refuses to repeat after it
I hate everything I see
But thank God I have something at least
My filters make me feel safe
They hide my true self from being seen
But when I have to put my phone down
And walk without them
That’s when I realized its all not real
And so i hide in silence
Too bad my filters can’t hide me here too
Mar 17, 2019
Mar 17, 2019 at 5:32 PM UTC
A look in the mirror
I feel so bare
Without my makeup
Without my filters
To hide my emotions
To show me I’m pretty too
“you are pretty”, my mouth says
But my heart refuses to repeat after it
I hate everything I see
But thank God I have something at least
My filters make me feel safe
They hide my true self from being seen
But when I have to put my phone down
And walk without them
That’s when I realized its all not real
And so i hide in silence
Too bad my filters can’t hide me here too
We filter our minds when online
But when we are bare thats when we find who we are
We realize the filters only work on our phones
And when we put them down
We have to be us
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