The Mask

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I'm great, fine, spectacular in a way.
I relish every night, and I live everyday
I live, I laugh, I write, I sing
I wonder what the new days will bring.

Then I get home, and I take off the mask.
The day, an almost  impossible task.
Is finally over, and so I lie down,
and wait patiently for the day that I die.

I cry, I scream, I bawl, and sleep,
Even though I have promises to keep,
I wait, and wonder, and cry some more.
And I ache and burn from my very core.

Then I'm not alone, and the mask reappears
Out goes the pain, greif, and all of the tears
As I am a happy person, cheerful all the day,
A world full of rainbow, not one shade of gray.

Of course I'm not okay, I'm not fine,
No matter how much I seem to shine,
I don't even know why I feel this...
Why my existence is one long endless abyss

But it is, and will be, so I cling to life,
As one day I might slip, and end it with a knife,
But I'm still here no matter what my dreams might say,
And I hope that one day I might actually be okay.

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