I remember a time when
I hid behind a mask
Just so you would
Notice me
A new shade of hair
Lipgloss
A new name
I know now what a fool I was
You didn’t notice me
You didn’t care
You left without a goodbye
You left without a care
Now you say you miss it here
Now it’s too late
You can’t have what you threw away
Be it a city
A career
A person
I am a person
I am who I am
And I know now that
I will never hide behind a mask again
They say
The true meaning of
A hero is…
To die so that others can live
Love is…
To care for another’s happiness
More than your own
Life cannot be only
This self-sacrificing charade
We live for others
More than ourselves
Their pains hurt us
Their woes devastate us
But it is not our choice
We were born like this
To hold other’s closer than we hold ourselves
To feel what they feel
To try and ease their suffering
Before our own
While we might not understand it
We cannot turn it off
We must embrace it
And hope that we can help
And be all that we can be
All that we were created to be
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