My poems

Facade

Look at me, I am smiling

Laughing... being hyper

A girl so carefree, am I not?

How wrong you are

You only see what you want to see

Look at me, away from you

Away from everybody else

Tears roll down, eyelashes wet

As I heave, shallow breaths

No longer smiling, no longer laughing

Shadows have taken its place

You see a facade

You do not see me

I'm fragile, a glass bird in a cage

Already broken, but not daring to show

I wish not for pity or compassion

Not from this cruel world

A shattered mirror

A huge blow

From the moments of my childhood

I learned to act as though everything is ok

But it’s a facade

You do not see me

Like snow frozen solid

Seemed so pretty when it was falling

Light and fluffy was it not?

But then it set and turned to ice

Cold and distant- treacherous

Just like me

A facade is what I live

I hide the true me

You never see who I really am

You never hear my cries of despair

Look at me, away from you

A girl with sadness, living a facade

The girl who always laughed, is now crying

The girl who never gave up hope, let go

The girl who never lost her smile, is grim

The girl who always talked, is now silent

And I whisper to myself, alone in the darkness

In the shadows that hide me

'I can't do this no more'

I lose my facade