Metaphor Poem

Different Faces To Hide True Feelings

I wrote this poem back in 1997, I just came across it while going through some papers. I hope that you enjoy it.

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Every day everyone wears different masks to cover up their sadness. They put on masks of happiness, and you don’t know what’s in their mind. They cover up everything like their heartbreak....

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The Mask

© more by Charlene Valladares

Published by Family Friend Poems November 2012 with permission of the Author.

I look in the mirror at the beginning of each day,
and ask myself what mask should I place on my face today.

No not the sad one it's too revealing,
I don't want to show the world my true feelings.

For the mask that you can see
camouflages the true me.

It's my public face that I remove each night,
when I bare my soul the mirrors light.

It's the one meant for only my eyes to see
it speaks of all my history.

It tells of my youth and girlish ways,
my adolescents and my young woman's dreams.

It tells of good times of which I had my share
of love lost and pain so hard to bear.

So I choose my mask so carefully,
to cover the face that was given to me,
the one that was meant for only my eyes to see.

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  • Precious by Precious
  • 4 years ago

Every day everyone wears different masks to cover up their sadness. They put on masks of happiness, and you don’t know what’s in their mind. They cover up everything like their heartbreak. It’s so very sad.

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  • Kathryn by Kathryn, Colorado Springs CO
  • 10 years ago

The mask poem is so real. I believe it's with every one on the face of the earth, except a child!

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