You look at people
and you think
that’s all they ever are:
flesh and bones.
But what you
don’t know is
that beneath the coats
of pretenses and walls
lies stories untold.
The agony of it all
aching to be released.
and the facade is
but a mirage
of the deeper miseries.
Pity for the world
has yet to know
for they see
with their eyes
and not with
the soul.