Shadow mask

Demolished emotions, got them on a roll.

My heart still races as if I’m still running

like before.  When I joined their table,

their eyes told me to go.  And I did.

Now it’s me saying go away. Sometimes I want

someone to cry with; to scream at the world with.

But instead, I cry for help inside.  In her fetal position,

I feel the real me deep in the space below.

Hoping to one day come out and introduce herself.

Give shadow masks to those who refuse to be noticed;

who want to be invisible.  Come on now, show us

your words of judgment.  Show us your hate

by mouth and hand.  Bring in another Judgment Day.

Show me I can easily be broken.  You can watch

my true self spill out like a new born anything.

Watch those shadow masked kids walk with me

by their side.  Watch our flock of sorrow float

past your shoulders.