Does anyone really love anyone?
Is this you I love or just your mask?
You wear a FaceTime mask
answering everything but what I ask.
I think I love you.
Your voice talks in my head
but what if it’s white noise or just dead.
I don’t know how to describe how beautiful you are
but are your eyes blue or brown?
I know your voice’s dulcet sounds
but it always says it hates you when you’re not around
my memories of you are they real
I break them down to recreate to reveal
you
but they don’t
they won’t.
We each wear three masks
one with strangers
one with friends
but it’s the one when we are alone that never ends
even our friends pretend
to move forward on this board game
I am bored of the shame
and of this sham
what is beauty but a glamour a magic spell
who can tell what we are in this hell
this made up fairy tale land
where I love you’s are a scam.
By Alienpoet AKA Daniel Hooks
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Daniel Hooks
A poet, activist and story teller who currently battles with a severe mental health problem.
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Wow this is so profound, felt it
A nice judgement!!!!!!!!