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Masks


You think you know me

You think that I love to hate, hurt, and bleed but I don't   

That's just my tough persona .

You think you know me better than I know myself

That you know or you've gone through what i'm going through but you haven’t.

I didn’t know my dad till I was three

All you know all you see is what I let outside of me.

If you knew what is inside you would want me to see someone

But I don't want to talk about it

I know I should but I can't

People who love me hurt my feelings

So don’t ask what's wrong and try to solve my issues

Just ask me what I need not want I really don't know myself

People think I'm mean not sweet or kind it's just because I'm sad inside

Sometimes It breaks you see through the mask

So I push you away and I grab some tape

Wishing I didn’t

Wishing you stop me

Talk to me

Make me feel better

But you won't and you don't because you slip up too

You have to look away

Put back on your mask

 

 

So don't say you know me

YOU DON'T

 

 

 


 


 

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Dmcculley

You are one in a million. That means there are 320 of you in the U.S. Find yourself. Create an army. Overthrow the government of a small midwestern town. Hi... I am a spoken word poet and that is the format the majority of my work will be. Some of these are work from the heart and some I did for school. I am a actor, a horseback rider, a sister, a member of the LGBT+ community, and an extreme introvert. I love kids, Netflix, video games, my pets, and I suck at every language I try other than Latin. (weird I know) I'm a Pisces on the Aires cusp. I act a whole lot like it too.

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