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unmasked souls

a poem about finding relief from our culture of self-induced cortisol

By Sidney HallPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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Follow me on Instagram: @hallofsidney | Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Poetry allows us to take off the mask

we’ve worn for so long,

which once created

the illusion of safety,

and deluded us into thinking

that maybe,

just maybe,

we could hide

from a world where one must

wear a mask

to win the approval of others,

whose obsession with manufacturing

their #pictureperfect lives

feels nothing but fake and contrived.

A world where one must pretend

that everything is forever okay,

because the truth makes people

“uncomfortable,"

which leads so many astray,

mistakenly believing

that it is better to join the crowd

and to mirror their

exact same

fucked up

ways.

But by speaking our truth

through verses and lines,

by removing the mask

for a worthy pursuit

in such disconnected times,

we find that we no longer feel

like imposters in our own lives;

we find that being raw and real

makes us feel more connected

and less concealed.

And our pain becomes just that: pain.

It is no longer the means

by which we suffer,

nor do we still believe

that this human plight,

which affects us all,

is something one must

bear alone, while

wearing a mask to fit in

with a society addicted

to getting its next fix

of self-induced cortisol.

- unmasked souls

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About the Creator

Sidney Hall

Photographing, in words, the world that I see.

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