"Screen" - Mask
You know,
I can see
Right through
Your mask
To your eyes.
Blue
Like the ocean,
But muffled
By your lies.
You pretend
At school;
"Just being friendly to the new girl,"
You say
To your friend.
Do you lie
To her
Too?
Do you
Throw up the
Barriers
Walls
Screens
When you talk
And she gets
Too close?
The false smiles,
The half answers,
The constant dancing round the truth.
It hurts
To know
You don't trust us
Like you should.
That you'd tell one
Against orders,
Break the rules,
But not for all.
We're a team.
We're friends.
We're family.
There should be no secrets,
Right?
So why,
When we all tell you ours,
You say nothing of yours?
You smile instead,
Offer support,
Say you knew all along,
Say it doesn't matter,
Say it doesn't change who we are.
I smile too.
It makes me happy
To know
You won't push us away
For what isn't
Our fault.
But then I think
And I see
The screen
Between you and us.
The lens
We have to
See you through.
The partition.
The divide.
The gap.
You've been distanced
By the Bat.
By yourself.
But you
Broke the rules
For one
But not
For us few.
We tell
Of the ties
That bind us,
But you stay silent
Pulling strings.
You must hope,
Sometimes,
That he'll let you share
So you can talk
To us
With us
About stuff.
Little things,
Like school
With me,
Like problems
With you,
And your life.
It must be hard
Sometimes
To stop,
Not to slip,
Or tread
On thin ice.
We all know
That circus
Was special.
The mission
Was cruel
To you.
You tried
And told us
To keep
An open mind;
You didn't want
The circus
To close
But why?
Happy memories
Can be precious.
Maybe
You have some
With them?
Please,
Tell us
We can keep
Secrets.
We have kept
Secrets.
We all want
To know
What troubles you
Without you
Having to stop
And cover up.
We know
A little
But we want you
To say
It.
To show
That you
Trust us.
There is no mole
It's been proved
Again,
And again.
Please
Bring down
The barriers,
The walls.
Tell us
We'll listen.
Tell us
So we can
Stop
Looking at you
Through this stupid
Screen.
(A/N) Decided I'd try my hand at writing some poetry and found that I enjoyed writing like this quite a bit, despite the difference to how I usually write things. Problem is, now I'm having issues with writing normal sentences... yay.
I should probably point out that these three drabbles are completely unconnected, so this wasn't in any way a continuation of the first chapter. Now that I think about it, it probably would've ben better for me to post these three as separate Fics, so sorry for any confusion caused.
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~SakuraTenshi~