I wrote this after we had an assembly from the Good Samaritans it really made me think hope you liked it .
Masks
My mask covers my face
Of indifference impassiveness
A laugh here, a scowl, a smile
A practise each of these painstakingly created masks
So they don't slip and reveal what is hidden beneath
What is hidden from even me
I create a new mask everyday
For every occasion
My masks are works of art
flawless
set into my face as a fossil into stone
Sometimes it is hard
I make my self laugh
My laugh sounds foreign to my own ears
Genuine to the ears of my peers.
But my mask is gone
As I talk to you tell you about my mask
It slips away
A tear a sigh a frown
Is this me?
Or just another of my masks
I wear them so often the come subconsciously
I have lost myself in my masks
I don't know who I am
I am my masks they are me
But as you tear my mask away
I find myself
And all I really needed was someone to listen
And to take away my mask
