A/N: I read this poem in my english class this past friday and when i read it i immediately thought back to when allen was told to stop wearing the mask of mana and stuff and well...yeah i've had this poem/story in my head for a while. after reading this let me know if you think i should continue this as a story or leave it as it is...

Disclaimer: d. gray-man does not belong to me and nor does we wear the mask...if not lenaleee would have been doing smutty crap with allen years ago or i would have gotten lazy with writing/drawing the story so meh...es lo que es.

We Wear The Mask

Poem originally by Paul laurence Dunbar

Turned into d. gray-man thingy by moi...

WE wear the mask that grins and lies,

I turned the corner after leaving the arc still feeling disgusted with myself, I saw Lenalee and had a flashback to my dream from earlier. I smile a bit and say hello, deciding to walk with her. Although she was smiling now i knew that she was crying on the inside out of fear since Leverier was here. She was still terrified of the man.

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-

We turned another corner and then went to my room, the both of us sensing one another's inner turmoil. To everyone who saw us along the way, we grinned with our eyes closed. no one but us would be able to tell it was fake.

This debt we pay to human guile;

When we got to my room she decided to take a shower since it was a way to calm down and I chained myself to my wall. it's what I do when I feel myself loosing control. I knew Lenalee was crying right now, but if I went to her right now, the 14h would most likely take over. While chained to my wall I thought about the dream I had yet again. In my dream, the 14th took over and killed everyone precious to me, and saved Lenalee for last. I remembered her screams and pleas for me to stop but I couldn't.

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

Lenalee came out and walked over to me with tears in her eyes and a pained smile she brought one hand up to my own face.

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

She unchained my arms and legs and I fell to the floor. I brought her into my arms and cradled her body to my own, her delicate frame shaking as she put her arms around my neck and I embedded my head into the crook of her neck.

Why should the world over-wise,

We didn't want anyone to ask us what was wrong or if we were okay.

In counting all our tears and sighs?

We knew something was wrong with us, we knew we were not okay. We didn't need anyone's pity.

Nay, let them only see us, while

We'll see them when we are okay enough

We wear the mask.

to place our masks on once again. my mask of mana, her mask for komui.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

We cried in each others arms, we cried out to whatever god there may be in the world, that the twisted madness could end

To thee from tortured souls arise.

The bit if us reliving the tortures we've been through.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

the long journey we've been traveling on a path covered in rose bushes, filled with it's ups and downs like notes on a sheet of music,

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

The never-ending fight between the exorcists and the noah-clan tearing up our sanity as well as our souls.

But let the world dream otherwise,

we drift off into our world of sleep, only to wake up with our masks renewed,

We wear the mask!

We continue to fake it, with our masks we keep going. the fact that our faces are masks known only to us...

OKAY. i am starting to feel like a hypocrite because a: i made a SHORT story and i hate this b: I made a poetry fic and those IRK me... and c: I'm thinking about leaving it as a oneshot! i hate oneshots because there is never enough to satisfy my appetite! please oh please let me know if you want me to actually make this into a story because i already have some stuff set aside for this but still! HELP! AYUDAIME! I FORGOT HOW TO SAY HELP IN OTHER LANGUAGES OH NOES! :P bleh...gone to all who endure my rants but don't forget i loves you all! and to my new readers... YOROSHIKU MINA-SAN!

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