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Behind a Mask

May 21, 2014
By dancing.inthe.rain GOLD, Bowling Green, Kentucky
dancing.inthe.rain GOLD, Bowling Green, Kentucky
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Favorite Quote:
"We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to subcome to dispair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance." -Gertrude Stein in the movie Midnight In Paris.


I hide behind a mask.
A mask for fear.
A mask for love.
A ask for the uncertainty.

I want to remove the mask,
but it comes in layers
that just reveal another mask underneath.

A mask for fear.
A mask for love.
A mask for the uncertainty.

Slowly the masks start coming off one by one,
with each layer revealing a thinner more transparent mask.
But I still hide behind these masks.

A mask for fear.
A mask for love.
A mask for the uncertainty.

I wear a mask of confidence.
A mask that says that everything is right.
A mask that let´s no one see what I am hiding inside.

I wear a mask for when I am lost.
Lost for words.
Lost in thoughts.
Lost in spirit.



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on Feb. 3 2015 at 8:15 am
dancing.inthe.rain GOLD, Bowling Green, Kentucky
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Favorite Quote:
"We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to subcome to dispair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance." -Gertrude Stein in the movie Midnight In Paris.

Te mask of confidence is because it became a lot easier to simply hide how I actua feel behind this confidence or a happier mask so people don't get uncomfortable. My whole concept is a bit odd but the mask for love and fear and uncertainty I didn't mean as I put on a mask that displays these, I wear a mask to hide these, to pretend that I am not scared of them and therefore the confidence mask makes sense. I take off a mask one by one as I either become more comfortable with these things to the point that I no longer feel afraid or I don't mind sharing that fear, but until then I wear a mask of confidence. I guess the real key here is when you go straight at looking at the "for" s and "of" s to see the difference between the feelings and the masks.

on Sep. 5 2014 at 7:51 am
WickedDreamer PLATINUM, Salem, Other
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Favorite Quote:
The legacy you leave is the one you live

"Behind a Mask"....It's a nice poem. I liked it and understood it really well till you started with "I wear a mask of confidence". Right from that line, it kinda threw me off.
The question, or rather a query that I'd love to clear is:- Why do you have to wear a MASK of confidence? Why don't you want to reveal yourself to the world? According to me, if you are still wearing a MASK of confidence, does it really give meaning to the word "CONFIDENCE" ?
I would love to get a clarification for my query!
Otherwise, this is a very good one. Keep writing better poetry! Best of luck.