Your mask, your guise, your final defense.
It's your barrier from reality, your metal fence.
It's the only thing preventing the truth from showing,
You just keep living your fake life without anyone knowing.
Your life goes on, it keeps going and going.
You look down at your feet, keep walking, never slowing.
Keep your guard up, don't let what's real slip out.
Keep them oblivious to the truth, that's what it's all about.
Don't let anyone in, don't show them your weakness,
So hide your true self, they don't know your uniqueness.
Don't let them know that you're vulnerable, don't let that get out,
But you want this acting to stop, you try to shout!
But no one comes to your rescue, your shout's not heard.
Your mask let's nothing out, not even a word.
You've been so efficient in hiding the truth so far
That when you want it to stop, you can't express who you are.
So the performance continues, the play goes on.
You're stuck in your box, you stay withdrawn.
The play never ends, the curtain never closes,
So while your life goes on, your soul decomposes.
Author notes
Poetry has been my only means of expressing myself, for whenever i try to in real life, I never follow through. All these secrets I have are eating me up inside so I needed to get all of it off my chest.
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Great write. I know how this goes. We put our real selves in this little cage in our mind so people won't really know. And now when we want it to acutally come out, it's been in there so long we don't know how to coax it out of hiding.
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This is a great poem, I don't know if you meant this or not and since it's a pre write it's uinlikely buy I found it ironic you'd mention a box when the name of the contest I have is a strand of lyrics from Man In The Box. Thank you for entering, quite impressive.
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hey this is Dani the judge....i meant to tell people that i will be a little harsh or close to mean if i don't like what i read. yours was by far the best one i've read. and i read about 3 more before yours but yours is the first rhyming poem i came across....so either you read some of my work and know that all i mainly do is rhyme or you enter this poem out of luck. well you got brownie points from me. great job with this. i LOVE LOVE stanza 4 and you did a great job ending this. good luck.
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Wow, great write and thanks so much for entering my contest.
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i didn't put which option it is and i'm kind of new here. i'm sure there is another way to. anyways, i did option 5.
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i like the last three lines of this.
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