I Wear a Mask (dedicated to the phony one in you)

[Soundcheck 1898]

some old stuf i wrote in HS inspired by We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar... I wrote this 15 min before class but it turned out to be one of my favorite.

I WEAR A MASK

Wattup kid...
Do you think you know me
Is their more to this man
than what u really see
cus I have a burden
that i have no choice to wear
because folks like you look at me
and choose to refuse to look beyond
whats actually there
beyond the skin
a look at whats really within
a strong saint on the outside
but a broken man dealing with past sins
a fallen angel
whose only dream was to ascend
to attain elevation
and to reach up to the heavens
but FELL BACK TO EARTH
and decided just to blend in
and try on my different mask
day by day... again and again
but kudos to me i guess
after all it was a good front
all i do is put them on
and let you think what you want
but i was TOO GOOD
now that i sit here in deep introspection
cus now i wonder why I'm looking in a mirror
talking to a stranger in its reflection...

-FableOner aka MonkRenny

Thoughts? (none of that e-fingersnappin business lol, i'd like input... PLEEEEASE :wink: )

oh yeah i forgot to add the reason I wrote this poem... i wrote it 3 yrs. ago right before my African Lit. class my senior year. In the class was the bulk of what was then the upper crust of the senior class and they used to irk the hell out of me because they were so phony... This poem was really about them was inspired by my observation of them htrought the year andhow they affected me.

[Soundcheck 1898]

No thoughts at all? :?

[C Diddy]

I read the beginning and the last few lines...the last few lines were great...made sense after I read what inspired you to write the poem.