My Version: A Book of Poetry

Mask of Society

When I first entered middle school,

My aunt sent me new school clothes,

They were my size, so I decided to try them on,

That day when I went to school,

I saw all my friends I once knew, and new faces too.

I'd hang with them and we'd talk for all hours,

Suddenly a group of girl's I'd never knew came up to me in the afternoon,

They pulled me aside,

Said we were now friends,

Simply because I was with an old friend,

They said that since I was friends with her and that she was friends with them It automatically makes me friends with them.

I didn't understand, But I didn't complain,

I was always welcome to new friends,

Although thinking back now I'm not sure that was the case,

They treated me right while all the while, within their hearts they were truly vile.

How was I to know?

After some time everything changed,

They were no longer as they seemed, they revealed their true colors towards me,

After they'd realized the person I'd be...

I will Not blindly follow,

I will not sacrifice my beliefs, or even reject the people I cared for most.

They tried to gang up on me and make me feel insecure, they tried to change me many times more,

They tried to make me feel that I'm the one who was at fault there.

I stood up to them, It gave them a shock, I laughed it off with my True friends,

The one's who didn't judge or ask me to change in any form or way.

I spoke about it with my mother,

She said they were jealous of my look.

My look? I exclaimed.

What's so special about it?

All I was wearing was some T-Shirt, sneakers and jeans...

Mother said it was because of their "Brand"

I'm not a fashion person, I didn't understand...

Even now I didn't understand the Phad...

I rolled my eyes and walked away,

It was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of...

Now all these years later when I look back.

I now understood the things that were said,

I wonder, can people really be that shallow?

Are there really people that judge by the outside appearance?

Doesn't anyone care for the spirit within?

You can be the most beautiful person on earth and still have a vile soul.

You can be the most ugliest person on earth and still have more friends than she who only thrives by physical beauty...

This is the Mask that Society wears,

They say one thing but their actions speak another...

It breaks my heart to think of such things...

Its the truth of our society,

They make you feel bad for the simple fact that they were themselves

The Mask of Society.

In my book nothing could be worse than that.

People judge by the way other's have judged them,

Its a cycle that may never end...

That is the Mask of Society

I feel lucky to be me,

I'm glad I didn't turn out to be a person like them.

If I was I'd be disgraced to myself.

No matter the mold they try to shape me,

I am Original, I am Special,

Simply because I Am Me.

I'll not sink so low, as to wear the Mask of Society.

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Created on November 03, 2012