I peeled back my mask
Lifted it away
To see what I had left
To see my flesh and hollow bones
The truth now was glazed over
By stereotypes
By labels
By formulas
For I once was a whole person
Back long ago
Then I donned a mask
To hide from the scrutiny
Then I donned a mask
To drown myself in normalcy
YOU ARE READING
Of Humans and Kings
Poetry"With her firestorm eyes and her watery soul It dripped away in pieces, no longer whole" A collection.
