William Checa Poet I do not know?

Mask of Illusion

Can eyes truly see and witness the real me that gain fake smiles of lies?
Eyes to behold behind these masks of fantasy to see how cast I am,
far from the sight of reality.
But you only notice me as I walk in illusory 
within the blindness of the eyes of reality, a perception that grows within me. 
Only eyes of heart can truly see and shatter illusions of me that even a beholder 
couldnt feel for a mask he only sees.

I breathe as to conjure up faces of chimera, 
persons live in disguise that deludes reality that you saw and mistook as me. 
They are Illusion and pretense that grows and roots within your mind that blinds you and 
reality. 
The ones you deem and think as real that ended and hidden me in the blackness of 
loneliness. 
Believe not for my life will be sealed in emptiness and lose my trust in me. 
Oh! See how Im veiled on the outside wearing someones face but a lonely man waiting 
someones touch to be free. 
People could not see the real me for I sealed myself to masks and a make believe of me 
only to throw the frighteners that scares me.

Feel how I mimic their voices and follow their ways and deceive you and reality. 
Im doing these masks of lies to gain the persons that you sought and needed to be. 
Like a Shape-shifter that I am that changes form from time to time only to be a man and 
true for you. 
Concealed being like this that my magics taken its effects in you, illusions you think 
as me that entangled your eyes of mind.

See how afraid like a child I am behind the smiles and laughter thats only been shrouded 
with pretenses to be strong as you think. 
A shivering child that I am is waiting behind the nimbus of lies that I formed as you 
see and believe as me. 
Do break my mask with kind hands and tear the veins of deceit that wrapped and drained 
my soul that made me lose my trust in humanity. 
Im waiting inside of me, deep in darkness and shadows for I cannot undo this mask of 
lies for Im in its death grip and tainted me.

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