A Bit of Poetry

This is a poem I wrote quite some time ago and kind of re-vamped this summer. I found the picture on the Tumblr of this really incredible photographer, Lara Jade. Check out her photography site: www.larajade.com

I wear a mask of diamond light

It’s a world of colors, happy and bright.

I display the angel they want to see; 

It’s a masquerade to hide the real me. 

I wear a mask of diamond light,

To keep it on takes all my might.

I want to tear off this terrible lie,

But to do so would be to surely die. 

I wear a mask of diamond light.

It’s filtered illusions of wrong and right.

Voices are muted, the past forgotten.

An unseen pit of charades gone rotten.

I wear a mask of diamond light

My wings are clipped, no hope for flight.

This whirl of splendor yields an iron cage

All the world is a colorful stage. 

I wear a mask of diamond light

It molds to my face, it fits on tight.

My soul is corseted, my breath is caught

All attempts to get free come but to naught. 

I wear a mask of diamond light

It’s a world of colors, happy and bright.

I display the angel they want to see; 

It’s a masquerade to hide the real me.