Masquerade

Every party is a costume party.
I don an invisible mask that hides
The real person I am beneath,
That you cannot abide.

🎭

Isolation is bad for your brain, they say,
Like a cheerful rhyme,
Dislodging me from the haven
Where I spend my time.

👺

Make new friends and be happy.
Go outside and live a life.
Advice they give from a good place,
But a place I would never choose to reside.

🧛🏽‍♂️

I made friends,
Lots of them,
Few that I can still find.
Gone the moment my acquaintance
No longer suited their fake lives.

🤿

I’m inconvenient in truth,
Words unable to hide,
A face that tells all,
So behind the mask it will slide.

🥷

Confident and, dare I say, sexy,
Hiding the persona behind
And leaving a vague outline
Within which you can write.

🧟‍♂️

Filling my apparent blanks
With what you fantasize,
Finding a crack in the armor
Where I am trying to hide.

👨🏻‍🚀

You squeeze in uninvited,
Not knocking to come inside,
Foot lodged in my closing door,
No retreat until you’re satisfied.

🦸🏻‍♂️

Reluctantly, I’ll present myself,
But only in disguise,
Wearing the face that you seek,
Though it is just a mask of lies.