my mask is pretty. Its got happienes all over it. Gleaming smiles, and a convincing laugh. My mask has no fear. It shines when nothing else will. It's a great actor, successful poet, talented singer, amateur artist, great thing little mask. My mask shows people hope. Serenity, insanity. my mask remembers the person behind it, too. The countless tears that strolled down my face. It remembers the fears I have of going home, returning to emptiness My mask reminds me that I'm alone, while taking me to others that could not even care. My mask has a plastered smile when I just want to scream. It strangles me, "reputations reputations" it wants me to be someone that I want to forget! This mask may make me look good on the outside, but honestly I'm dead on the inside, like a tree still standing, but not functioning Like ****, I can't be who I want to be, because that person is far stranger than anyone you've ever seen. I can't be myself this mask I hold buries me in my own darkness. It holds the knife to my throat. My mask saves me but curses me. This reputation I hold is supposed to define me. But I'm losing everything everything the girl I like is fading away my best friend is noticing my flaws nothing is working anymore MY TOWER IS BREAKING MY MIND FADING. <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Into a word of chaos I am dying. This mask is burying me beneath the surface. It's consuming me. Eating my life whole. This ***** of a feeling. This....darkness. Is all because it makes me good This mask brings me a feeling of belonging. But after all, it is just a *mask