The Grand Ball

At some point we are all invited to the masquerade ball

We put on our intricate masks and prepare to have a good time

Let's forget who we are and play pretend for a while!

Let's hide and deceive, showing a perfection we pick off a shelf

deciding that's what we want people to see.

Don't take off the mask because everyone will stare...

judging you through peep-holes

shocked at the face underneath.

Let's keep on the mask!

Committing a crime against ourselves

smothering the life underneath

until we forget it's there

Let's forget for just a moment

live in a fairy-tale where we are some flawless creation of imagination.

That's how we want it to be, right?

The mask is secure

The mask is beautiful

The mask is a unique normality

but the mask

isn't us.

no matter how hard we press it on

it only causes us pain

it starts to crack

We realize we don't want to lose the person inside

but sometimes it's too late.

Take off the mask.