Mask

"I wear you everyday, my mask. I carry your burden around and yet you steal from me my greatest virtue- my true self, my soul. I comfort myself by saying that without you, the world would look different to everyone who believes me to be their world. But the truth is that my own inner power scares me beyond measure, I am terrified of my own light. As a child I learnt to feel guilty for his failures and to pay by hiding my own self as I had to be the one thing that could make him happy. Even as I write, I am scared to bare my soul for my loved ones should not know that I too feel pain.

I am glad I met you, my soul. My life's mission is to shed that mask so my people can see the person that I am." Anonymous