When does strength mask emotion? I'm so in control I don't feel the need to write. Yet, I want to. A place for me to admit my short comings, A place to merely be real with who I am becoming. A woman who doesn't settle, but hides behind her face. No one will see this pain. Suicide before they see me cry... No. That's silly. Life is a bigger and better adventure than that. Then why is it still on my mind every week? At some point I'm alone and something happens... It points out a fault, a short coming, a failure .. Then my mind wanders to all the pain, the lies, manipulations, loss.. and I can't hide from that truth. That behind this mask, no one knows me. This too, is my fault.