Don't be fooled by me <br />don't be fooled by the face i wear <br />masks that i am afraid to take off <br />and none of them are me. <br />pretending is an art that's second nature to me, <br />but don't be fooled. <br />i gave you the impression that im secure <br />that confidence is my name <br />that the waters calm and im in command <br />and that i need no one. <br />but don't believe me <br />my surface may seem smooth, but my surface <br />is my mask, ever varying and ever concealing <br />beneath lies no complacence <br />beneath lies confusion and fear and loneliness <br />but i had this. i don't want anybody to know it. <br />i panic at the thought of my weakness and fear being exposed. <br />thats why i frantically create a mask to hide behind, <br />a nonchalant sophisticated facade to help me pretend, <br />to shield me from the glance <br />the glance that knows <br />but such a glance is precicely my salvation. <br />my only hope, and i know it. <br />that is if its followed by acceptance, <br />if its followed by love. <br />its the only thing that can liberate me from myself, <br />from my own self built prison walls, <br />from the barriers i painstakingly erect <br />its the only thing that will assure me <br />of what i cant assure myself, <br />that im really worth something <br />i don't like to hide.<br /><br />forever gone<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/please-hear-what-im-not-saying/
