The face I show to others is not one that I possess,
A mask that smiles and says I’m fine, unable to confess, That what I let into the light reflects a view too shallow, A puppet dangled dancing, mastered from a silent shadow. People always tread on me, not knowing where I’m found, Though meaning well, they hold me down, the shadow on the ground, Within a well I find myself, with things I chose to drop, The things best left forgotten, all the thoughts I want to stop Asking questions brings up thoughts I seek to hide away, Whose sharp and brittle edges pierce through flesh to snap and stay, Shards of barbs pump poison in a putrefying pulse, That marks and starkly darkens far too deeply to revulse. When I wake I’m crushed too deep beneath the body I express, The weight is overburdened, into this mattress I compress, To the burden that this body bears I become a slave I cannot raise an arm nor hand nor finger from this grave Yet there’s comfort in submission self-control is bound to steal, Extended intermission in a play I’m dreading to reveal, Best to hide behind the curtain, lights dimmed down to black, Buried down below by this body burden on my back. While this body pins me down, my brain cannot find rest nor peace, It rages flailing blind, a hurricane with no release, Lashes ‘gainst the cage that keeps it trapped, within, alone, Til drained it tumbles back to thoughts it knows best not be known Communications needed, but my voice can’t make it out, In this well the echoes only mine, no escape for any shout, The rungs that line the walls, descending only deeper, And the slow descent to darkness sharpens growing only steeper.
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