# Mask

Author: forest elk
Tags: Dark, Human, Identity, M/solo, Mask, Poetry

Mask is about the theoretical shield that everyone has. I myself have one, a wall of sorts that isn't really me, something I put up for other people. My mask is a completely different person to me. My mask is something I have no wish to be, and have to keep up at all times in public. After this revelation, I tried to ditch the mask. Only to find I couldn't, I had an identity crisis, right then and there.Who was I? And what did I want out of life? what were my likes and dislikes?
And you know what? I didn't know
and that scared me.
Think about what face you put up, and the risks of long term use. I found that I was no longer me. So I have begun to drop the mask and find what I like about life and who I am.
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I wear a mask, upon my face

To hide away my realself

From those both close

And far away

I cannot show them myself

 

I lock my feelings deep inside

Deep inside my soulself

Tie the string to hold the mask

That hides my fragile feelself

 

So long from birth

Has mask been placed?

To hide my deep thought

Soulself

 

I cannot know

What's down below

I do not know my

Ownself

 

 

 

Why do I hide?

What is inside? What's inside?

My realself

I cannot find, where mine resides

Feelings lost in gloom

I do not know

Where did they go?

The feelings locked inside

 

Cannot release

The strings attached

To mask and to my face

I realise, for all this time

It's always been too late

 

For though I try, to cut the twine

That cuts into my soulself

The mask I made for me

It now won't leave

For the mask is now my face

The mask is now just me

I AM THE MASK AND

THE MASK IS ME

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