Constrictive Skin
Wearing new skin, this lady's all anew
Brandishing epidermal camouflage
A new sense of comforted composure
Gallantly striding in a way she never had
Safely
Stepping
Strengthened
I dare not ask to see a layer below this show
She is showing me the preferable version
Nodding I approve...yes a better you
a newer you
a different you...silently I disapprove
Fearing I knew the little girl hiding underneath
would peek from time to time
Seeing if her costume served its perfunctory purpose
fooling them...pleased...she traipsed in hollow garb
The masquerade wore on and a newer audience appeared
Performances went from weekly, to daily, to constant
Consuming and constrictive
New skin clung tight to a suffocating girl
A different girl
A frustrated girl
The game had transformed into a maddening display
The girl I knew, a shell of herself, feeling trapped
Crying out in a confused scream of fit
"Why don't they understand"!!!!
I couldn't bring myself to tell her what she wouldn't see
A facade of outer strength was weakening the core
No one understood her...because they didn't know who she was.....
Copyright © Steve Voorhees | Year Posted 2009
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