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Array ( [sid] => 28301 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Masks [time] => 2003-11-30 17:40:09 [hometext] => Does anybody truly change or do they just hide the truth? [bodytext] => Isn’t it amazing
How people seem to change?
Not only in aging
For nothing stays the same

Changing from job to job
And children, how they grow
Unpretentious to snob
Truly caring to shallow

Though appearance may not alter
You’ll see behind their eyes
There is a hidden layer
They’re afraid you’ll despise

Sometime in their history
Someone, they did displease
The guilty trait, they did bury
A new mask, they did seize

Why should we hide the truth?
What help does that give?
In time, these things we must loose
And with them, we must learn to live

The moral of this story
Is to be who you are
For masks are too costly
And they only hide the scars

With time and attention
The wounds you have will heal
And with determination
You’ll find the you that’s real
[comments] => 2 [counter] => 405 [topic] => 21 [informant] => ToriVeigh [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
Masks

Contributed by ToriVeigh on Sunday, 30th November 2003 @ 05:40:09 PM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems



Isn’t it amazing
How people seem to change?
Not only in aging
For nothing stays the same

Changing from job to job
And children, how they grow
Unpretentious to snob
Truly caring to shallow

Though appearance may not alter
You’ll see behind their eyes
There is a hidden layer
They’re afraid you’ll despise

Sometime in their history
Someone, they did displease
The guilty trait, they did bury
A new mask, they did seize

Why should we hide the truth?
What help does that give?
In time, these things we must loose
And with them, we must learn to live

The moral of this story
Is to be who you are
For masks are too costly
And they only hide the scars

With time and attention
The wounds you have will heal
And with determination
You’ll find the you that’s real




Copyright © ToriVeigh ... [ 2003-11-30 17:40:09]
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Re: Masks (User Rating: 1 )
by Rissa on Sunday, 30th November 2003 @ 06:15:57 PM AEST
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Nicely written and good overall point.



Re: Masks (User Rating: 1 )
by sindi-selde on Sunday, 30th November 2003 @ 09:32:34 PM AEST
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I always had cheap masks.

They are falling off, and I cannot rebuild them from the shards.

Exept my one pretty mask, whose strings I untied.


I like this.

It makes me think.




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