Cloak of Invisibility

I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part, if that’s what you ask. Give you all I am.  – “Human” by Christina Perri

Hide it so well

Hide it behind a wink and a smile

Hold it in, don’t let it out

Hold it all, stand big and tall

Played them all, you played the role so perfectly

Confidence, they say

She has it all

So cocky, so snooty, so mightier than thou 

Oh how so Queen of Sheba she is

So wrong they all were

As you cracked and crumbled inside your soul

Blinded by their sensibilities

Guided by the view of vanity

They failed to see that you were

Desperately clinging to their rose colored view

Plagued by what they didn’t see

In your eyes so clearly lay the world

For which you couldn’t please

Cloaked in your false imagery

Confidence and strength

Invisible to the untrained eye

Drained by insecurity

Haunted by insecurity

Anchored by insecurity

Drowned by…insecurity