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Anna Banana Oct 2015
Masks

they help us hide

from who we are

behind a curtain

dancing silhouettes

they’ll never know

puppets on strings

acting how we should

we spend so much time hiding

when the mask is removed

we  won’t recognize ourselves

we don’t even know who we’re hiding

scared to know what’s within
Philip Jamilla Oct 2015
“Can you imagine the world if
We we only saw souls
Not bodies?”
          - Unknown

Can you imagine the world if
I removed every piece of skin -
          from my arms to my legs,
          to the very edges of my face -
Peel them off one by one, until
All you can see is my flesh -
          my very innards contracting,
          muscles and bones moving
                    together.
A mechanism that cages beneath
The fibers and strands -
          a shadow-beast,
          a swirling pool of darkness.
          a dark, unfathomable monster.

Can you imagine the world if
We only saw souls and not bodies -
          if we only saw souls without
          the masks we call “bodies?”

Can you imagine the world if
Shadows and monsters treaded the earth -
          if from the other side of the pavement
          a decaying carcass walks your way?

Run, don’t walk, my dear,
          *run, don’t walk.
madrid Oct 2015
The mirroring we do.
The projection we play.
Will all come back to haunt us.
Somewhere,
Somehow,
Someday.
Whatever we put out in the world will come back hurling at us.
Yusuf Kura Sep 2015
I
I have been in search of the self of self’s
to end the war being waged inside,
for years now between the masks I hide
I’m a son to the trees and seas.
I’m a brother to those that bother, and
those who are blind to color
I’m a student to whomever wants to teach.
I’m a lover of words, and hope that bloom in a rose
I’m a believer in the shadows that move between spaces.
And the sweetness heard in the soul and seen in the sky.
I am a lover of who yells “keep the peace.”
I am he, who sometimes does not practice what he preach,
he who sometimes could not tame the devil at bay,
and so he comes out to play.
I am he who stalks life with blindfolded anger and say “why have you forsaken me?”
I am he, a true believer of God and the hereafter.
A sinner who can’t shake off the temptations of life,
he who knowingly dances at the edge of his knife, and
he who must answer for his crimes, his crimes, his crimes
for his waste of time,
The lies! The lies! The lies!
I am he, who sits alone in a dark room,
A dark house,
A dark world,
thinking about death,
being exhaustingly terrified of death,
sometimes wanting to die but knowing his hereafter isn’t as………
I am the student that sits on his hands,
who doesn’t do **** and probably won’t amount to ****.
I get scared not because it’s a scary world, which it is, but
because of the people in it.
Not people with big guns, sharp knives, hulkish anger issues, or
people in power doing bad things.
Because of my dad, my moms, my brothers, my sisters, my teachers, my lovers, my friends, tax payers,
I get scared because this tower of dreams
I’ve been put in
It will crumble,
these shoulders of mine will brake badly
I have been anticipating and fearing the pain.
While I was it came and came not with fear.
It came and all became clear
Simplicity is a hunger that cannot be satisfied.
No one knows my secrets except the shadows I lay with.
Francie Lynch Sep 2015
The moon wore Janus masks last night,
Winking and nudging at our daily shenanigans;
Our wrong turns, the vanity of our foibles,
The apprehension of non-events,
Poking at our comedy of errors.
Our youthful angst.

The other mask keeps an eye closed
To our secrets,
The thoughts we cannot share;
Our furcht of past to future
Since our first fires,
Since someone said, You've said too much,
Or, What business is that of yours?
I've buried my losses beneath that mask,
With all the irreplaceable loves and deaths
Of my real drama.
Pastell dichter Sep 2015
Sweetheart I love you,
You don't need a mask,
Your beautiful and smart
and sweetheart I love you,
for you and not for who you pretend to be,
You don’t need to try to be any thing more than you,
Because you are strong and brave
and I know you may not love your self as much as you should,
But sweetheart I love you,
So please don't hide behind a mask,
Let me see you as you and not as any one else,
I believe in you sweetheart,
I know you can do it,
I’m not asking you to smile for me,
I’m not asking you to laugh,
I just want you sweetheart,
Because I love you and I want my sweetheart back.
for my maple
Nightingale74 Sep 2015
Why must the tortured
ice their darkened, bitter cakes
with pretty frosting?
Jose Gonzalez Sep 2015
“He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths.”
―Iris Murdoch
For our two sides, good and bad, dark or light side. Or rather the side we present and the side we shield, there just may be a way to co exist as long as harm is not done to thyself or others. We all wear mask at some point.
Lindsay Thomas Aug 2015
I'm okay,
I'm just fine.
And I'll say whatever else
I need to keep you around this time.
I'll say all's well,
Life is perfect now.
And I'll hide behind a smile
Because you always loved that best.
I won't pry,
I won't fight.
And I'll keep the decay from sight,
For I'm dying, and you're lying.
There's no love here,
Not while we're both alive.
lmt
Francie Lynch Aug 2015
If love's in the air,
Why do we wear masks?
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