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[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 )
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