Masks

[myself]

Why do we feel the need

To wear masks

To hide ourselves

Behind masks

To act the part of

The person we feel

The others would appreciate

Or we think we should be?



Isn’t this a sure way

To lose our real selves

And to become confused

About our identity?

There will come a time

When we won’t be able

To fish for our real self

Drowned in a pool of ‘selves’

We have created

For the others to judge

Yet have we really escaped critiques from others?



Haven’t we lost our chance

For happiness

And our personal freedom?



So much pretending

And role playing

And we’re no longer

Honest with our own true selves

Which are lost and forgotten

Among so many masks and lies

And we may end up

With the lives we have not wanted