IF I WAS SOMEONE ELSE

A mask, a borrowed face, A hidden self hidden in space. "Now you see why," the whisper sighs, "Why truth in me so quickly dies." A wall of silence, built so high, Your unseen block, a cold goodbye. My voice, unseen, unheard, unknown, A seed of self, that's never grown. "If I was someone else," I'd cry!! A different name, a different creed. Then, perhaps, your eyes would see, The ghost of what I long to be. No barriers raised, no judgment cast, A moment's grace, that could have last. But blocked and bound, I'm forced to play, This role, another day.