Thursday, January 31, 2013

Phantom


You offer me the mask. No, you do not offer. You pretend to offer because I expect you to at least pretend. I want to scream, I am no monster, my lips are too beautiful to hide. Why should I hide the monstrosity I do not possess? But the process to possess, to be part of you, leads me astray and I have become you. I sit, idle for nine long minutes, starring at its blankness, only to acquiesce, no protests, no questions. I hide under it, barely breathing, longing for the time I can be myself again and sing. 

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