This poem uses my NEW Form => Criss-Cross - Pivot => see details in my Blog and Contest description => Criss-Cross - Pivot Blog https://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry/blogs/new_poetry_form_-_the_criss-cross_pivot-45140
. Invented Self . carefully assembled . porcelain smiles . borrowed voices . stitched convictions . measured glances lowered . well-worn pathways . mirrored gestures . doubts parried away . excuses ironed smooth . certainty wearing thin . the mask slips sideways . daylight finds the cracks . UNMASKED . silence resettles . breath returns . eyes meet themselves . dawn arrives . edges grow stronger . echoes lose their walls . depth shows through focus . old scars catch the light . nothing is left to hide . old voices fall silent . hall mirrors crack wide open . the skin fits again . The within Comes home
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