To Remove Our Masks

Deception starts with us It paints a picture of inadequacy We are convinced of what we are not Pertaining to excellence, intelligence, or beauty The worthlessness we feel We can’t bear to let others see It’s just one more sign of weakness That horrifying vulnerability The image of ourselves That we hope others will perceive Unknowingly brings us down further Because of the lies we use to deceive And the worst part of it all Is when we reflect on what we say To make others believe That reality is what the mirror relays Knowing the falsehood we preached May have been willingly accepted Inside we feel empty As if this wasn’t what we expected You’d think we’d know better Than to mislead and to cheat This distorted reality Only ends in defeat Because the lies we tell ourselves Were never truth in the first place Making the lies we tell others A subconscious display of our true face When we learn of this deceit And its never-ending circulation We begin to unmask ourselves To gain a better reputation In our old self-malevolence Believing the imperfections for so long We found ourselves eternally clinging Hoping to find that all the lies were wrong