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qtpieelmo
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since 2000-07-04
Posts 989
Sesame Street :) hee hee ,NY

0 posted 2000-07-04 12:58 PM


THE MASK

Concealed behind a mask of laughter,
painted on like a clown.
Sparkling eyes like diamonds,
a smile as radiant as the sun.
Not a drop of pain ever shown.
Making others smile & laugh,
though the favor is seldom returned.
I might smile on the outside,
but inside I desperatly ache.
This mask can't hide me forever,
these emotions suppressed,
restraining my tears.
Where can I run?
Where can I hide?
If my mask disappears,
how will I survive?

*I've been everybody else, now I wanna be something closer to myself*
~ELMO~



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Hardrock
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since 2000-02-14
Posts 948
New Hampshire, USA
1 posted 2000-07-05 01:08 AM


Your mask becomes your prison,
Behind whose bars you hide.
For while it keeps the others out,
It's keeping you inside.
Take off the mask....you WILL survive.
Nice poem here, Elmo.    Hardrock

lotharingia
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since 2000-06-04
Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany
2 posted 2000-07-05 05:42 AM


Great poem, great icon at the top. But if you swallow your real emotions for to long they'll dissolve you from the inside, because they don't want to stay imprisoned, they want to get out!

Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland


Jeremiah Johnson
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since 2000-06-08
Posts 1223
Brooksville, Fl, U.S
3 posted 2000-07-05 03:02 PM


what they say is true you can't hind forever and lie to yourself about who you are. you must understand there is always someone there to help you out even if it does not seem like it all the time. well great read and keep your head up cause i'm running out of air down here. LOL

I'm a dying romantic and when i can no longer write i can no longer live -Jeremiah Johnson-


qtpieelmo
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since 2000-07-04
Posts 989
Sesame Street :) hee hee ,NY
4 posted 2000-07-05 06:58 PM


LOL thanx all!!!  
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