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