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Painted Masks

If you were to read the desperate thoughts, that circle and spin around in my head

Would you consider me as already dead?

Would you burst into tears as you quietly hear

The screams of a heart that is drowning in fear?

 

Fear of the darkness, fear of being alone,

You would step back in horror at the images shown

Images of young girl who cuts her own skin

With her ribs sticking out as she wants to be thin

 

You would feel your stomach churn, with your heart left in sorrow

Knowing that broken young girl has plans to **** herself tomorrow

You would grasp at your chest for the pain in your heart

Would be so overwhelming it would tear you apart

 

But you would have never known of the things that she feels

Every day she is struggling and skips all her meals

She looks at her scars and wants to make more

For she feels some comfort when there's blood on the floor

 

You would ache at the fact that you ignored all the signs

Of her dying soul, because inside all your minds,

"It's not all that awful, because everyone gets sad"

But little did you know of all the pains that she had

 

She hides all her emotions, and puts on a smile

But those lovely painted masks only last for awhile

For when she returns to her bedroom at the end of the day

She lies bleeding on the floor, slowly withering away

 

Once you have read her mind, and have seen her true face

Would you still think she'd make it, or is that not the case?

Would you see her scars and her skin that's too fair?

Or must she truly be dead for anyone else to care?

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Apr 27, 2013
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