Beauty or The Beast?

what do you see?

 

Do you see me,

Or do you only see my face?

Are my eyes just blue and beautiful to you,

Or can you read my hopes and regrets in them?

Are my sighs just sounds to you

Or can you hear the confessions and questions they convey?

Are my lies the truth to you

Or can you see through façades I have learned to live with?

Are my cages what you think keeps me out of the world’s reach

Or can you understand that they are what I have built to protect the world from mine?

Do you see what they all see when they look at me

Or do you see the true things I hide so well?

I need you to understand  but don’t want you to.

Are you still with me because you too have believed

Or because you know and accept all that I have concealed?

Hate me if need  be.

Fear me if you have to.

Leave me if you want to.

Love me if you choose to

But please don’t believe me.

I am not that. This is who I am, what I am.

Look at me and see. I can’t show you. But see.

Can you? Will you?

Do you?

Do you want to?

Author's Note

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