The girl,
with a mask,
a mask of fun.
She wears ***
on her body,
while she hides pain
locked within
her fragile heart.
She paints beauty
with every step,
but feels empty
the further she strays.

Purity underlies the picture
of an assumed permanence.
She loves and re-loves,
though she cries
the more love escapes within.
Falling into the trap
of the outward search
for happiness,
for acceptance,
for true love.

In a society that destructs
and hates,
but wonders why love
cannot be present
alongside that hate?
No, for love exists
without a trace of hatred.
While hate in itself, is simply
the lack of love.

So teach,
dear teachers!
How one must love
themselves!
Put a halt
to the waste of the eternal search
for peace.
Why, it is already within us!

Distractions tug on our awareness
every moment.
Disconnecting this girl,
from herself,
her true and pure
essence,
her peaceful spirit.
She has found hate inside,
though what has arisen instead,
is the lack of acceptance
to the disconnection
that she is bound to.

She hasn’t known her spirit,
in quite some time.
The purity was left behind
for a daunting picture
that she could wear.
Now childhood memories
are all that is conscious
within her.
She now longs after that freedom,
that complete joy and love for life.
Please not forget,
It is still within you child!

Set forth a journey,
not out and about,
but for a search within.
The love is still lingering,
just reach in,
and save it from it’s misery!
Let this love inside
grow and heal
your broken soul.

Your inner child will forgive,
and that purity will bring you
to see the light,
and feel the harmony.
Let yourself be the child
you always were.
And simply,
radiate the  joy for life,
you thought to have been destroyed.

Learn that happiness
is never destroyed,
peace
is never gone,
and love
never succumbs to hatred.
It is merely
the path we choose
that strays from purity.
It is always lying within,
some plainly put on a mask.

So take off that mask,
dear child,
your beauty lies within,
not without.