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My Mask Unmasked

August 11, 2011
By AvidReader SILVER, Los Angeles, California
AvidReader SILVER, Los Angeles, California
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I hide behind it.
It shields me,
protects me,
from all of nature's follies
and all misjudged beliefs.

I hardly ever strip it off,
it being so helpful,
so useful for tact.

It's become part of me
So natural, so sure
That just a sentiment, just a word
will send it back sprawling, like a disease without a cure.

I doubt I'll ever master it,
that face that outwards is shown
whose words are thin and meaningless
but whose thoughts are for me alone.



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on Aug. 27 2011 at 11:31 am
WritingGirlKyla14 PLATINUM, West Valley, Utah
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Favorite Quote:
10.<br /> I am a princess, all girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren&#039;t pretty or smart or young. They&#039;re still princesses, all of us.&quot; -Frances Hodgeson Burnett, A Little Princess<br /> or<br /> 1.<br /> Live in the present, remember the past and fear not the future, for it doesn&#039;t exist and never shall. There is only now.&quot; _Christopher Paolini, Eldest

That's really good. I love. So much feeling to it!

~Kyla    : )