hilariously obvlivious

"you're changing 

for the worse," 

they said. 

"what if i'm 

becoming who 

i am?" she said. 

and they didn't 

understand,

so they just 

laughed; 

while she muttered

to herself,

"what if i was 

unaware of my 

own mask?"

their puppeteer strings

too delicate to feel sewn into 

into my skin.