Masks

What mask should I put on today?
The classic “everything’s okay”?
Or, just to mix it up a bit,
I could try “I don’t give a shit”

But that one’s got some risk to it
The trick’s to stick the humor skit
Be quick to show you’re joking
Lest they realize that you’re serious

I suppose I could try
“just a bit sleep-deprived”,
“haven’t had coffee yet”,
“had a long, boring drive”

These are dangerous, though
Because people catch on
They can start to see through
To the true mask you don

That is, unless you’re me, you see
I’ve found out how to hide
To take my truest self
and stuff it very deep inside
So deep that I don’t know the place
where it sits on a shelf
If I can’t see my own true face
Then how could someone else?

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