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Masked

Happy, full of giggles and smiles

Don’t you know I can go for miles?

Can you see me through my mask?

Trying to hide a wounded past.

When will sun shine through the rain? 

My judgment, clouded as I hide

It’s because of my foolish pride.

You only see what I want you to.

You can’t see through—I use a mask.  

People like what I let them see,

They love that mask; they don’t love me.

I don’t like it, it’s all that I’ve got.

Show the real me? I think naught!

From you I conceal all this pain.

I live a lie—I use a mask.

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kasey-bailey
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Published
Mar 2, 2010
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