Pushing through feelings of sadness
like giving up

it's a hard life out there
but no one tells you
when you're hidden away
in a system where learning is at value
but not learning about the real world
just learning how to memorize
just memorizing facts
so many facts
that your brain wants to explode

go to work
put on my mask
leave work take off my mask
or was there a mask at all?

can't remember what my first mask was
don't have time to categorize all of them

masks floating around
floating all around inside my head
until I can't choose just one
it's just an amalgamation of all of them
floating around inside my head