What to Wear
Sewn ones
Shopped ones
Neck gators
Bandanas
Loops over the ears
Loops around the head
Ones with funky fabric
Ones in surgical white
Ones in plain patterns
Ones in all black
Pleated ridges and squares
Curvy nose bridges and wires
GIANT PLASTIC SHIELDS OF MIGHT!
And
Every
Single
One
Is
Beautiful
Because that person chose to care
Beautiful mask
There’s a girl,
who wears
a beautiful mask.
She paints her face,
both physically
and emotionally,
with everything
people expect
from her:
beauty,
grace,
smiles
and
perfection.
They don’t
expect her
to know
too much,
to say
too much.
She just has
a purpose
of
sitting still
and
looking pretty.
She does what
they expect,
while crying
behind the mask,
which would look
hideous to others
as makeup
smears all over her
face,
she smiles
and laughs
when deep down
she’s cracking,
snapping
and internally
Dying,
as she lies
and hides
the truest beauty,
of being herself,
because others
expected different of her.
Of her fragile
body
and fragile
mind,
which is now
all
broken
and bruised,
as she stands
on edge,
taking in a deep breath
of life,
before lying again,
to everyone
but most
importantly
herself,
saying she’s fine,
and
perhaps
she’ll
turn and walk away
or
perhaps
she won’t,
perhaps
she has had enough.
2.7.2020
Covert
A beautiful mask,
to cover the lack of empathy.
I fell,
head over heels,
again and again.
Tumbling forward,
unable to see the truth
under that mask of manipulation.
I doubted myself,
when I should have been doubting you.
Gullible and vulnerable.
A fool for you.
Needlessly hurt,
at my own hand,
because you hid under the mask of beauty,
and I could not see,
how easily I could be freed.
The Hand that Turns the Page
Both will disintegrate
the smile and the art
these eyes and magazine
this nose and the article concealed
the face and the cover
the feather and the cap
will all be blown as one
ashes to ashes
dust to dust
...
dearly departed
that beautiful mask
till now was us
even the vanity we glanced from behind the glass has become just a passing thought
07.05.2020
A Beautiful Mask challenge @Ernaline
Who else
Magnificent, spectacular, breathtaking, overflowing sweetness with angelic touch of cuteness. If she wasn't perfect who else was, she heard the whispers of others delightfully.
When she was alone she took off the mask she wear. Under the mask the face she hide, full of scars, scratches, cracks, marks she managed to smile.
If I wasn't perfect who else was? She whispered to herself.