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Mask of words

May 9, 2015
By embree6 SILVER, Seville, Ohio
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There is no inherent right or wrong in this world, those labels are just artificial constructs. Right and wrong are held by positions of authority. That is the way it's always been, so how then could anyone know this truth you speak of? Don't you see the reality is that truth long ago became nothing more than a shadow of itself; it's a mere echo of the past now... The world is one big moral gray area, it just makes you feel safer that it can be categorized into good and bad, but that's not how it actually works.

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I stumble around

the holes being only slits

I hide behind my mask of words

of who I have to be

Underneath are scars engraved

By happiness and love

the mask is cold no emotion,

it wears the face of none

Id doesnt love me

so why should you?

© Cerys W., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:

I wrote this poem for anyone that feels like they are faking who they are.  Who cares about what others think?  In my life I rather have one friend who understands me then 50 fakes.

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