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So happy and joyful

Or so you think

Staring into my eyes you see

What I appear to be

A simple, happy and joyful girl

The perfect life

But these deceiving eyes have fooled you

Fooled you time and time again

A perfected mask, the unbreakable mast

It has become a part of who I am

Or so I try to convince myself

Every night I take it

And lay it gently on my desk

Below that bright lamp

Shining on the mask yet again

So bright, so unbearably enticing

Somewhere along the way

I lost myself

Somewhere I lost my soul

Deep within this mask

As it stares back at me

I realize, I have changed

I am no longer who I once was

I am what this mask

Has made me

What these deceiving eyes will never let on

They will never let on

They will never show you

What I burried long ago

What I let die

Long before you ever knew

I will never let you see

What lies within

Forever seeing me for what this mask has created

Never knowing the real me screaming on the inside

The real me I so badly want to let out

But it will never show

Forever hiding behind this mask

Fooling you every time