This life is so complex that we rarely get to be the people we are truly meant to be. Instead, we wear masks and put up walls to keep from dealing with the fear of rejection, the feeling of regret, the very idea that someone may not love us for who we are deep in our core, that they might not understand the things that drive us.

-Catherine Doyle

Vendetta

*****

I put on a fake smile

To hide my pain

Yet I wish someone would

See how broken I am inside

The mask that I wear

Hides my inner feelings and emotions

Betrayal, sadness and anger

Run deep in my veins

Years of torment by

The people who I call mine

Slowly destroy my soul

From inside bit by bit

The mask that I wear

Suffocates me everyday

Now I can't find a way

To remove it off of my face

The blood of betrayal

Runs deep in my family

Who did nothing but take away

My ability to trust and love

All I've felt in my life

Is sadness and betrayal

Where there is no place for

Love to stay for long

The mask that I wear

Is something that I fear

Which I think will destroy me

For the rest of my life....