I saw you shuffling on a dark dreary night
As you drew away from everyone's sight.
From everyone you tried to hide your plight
With your demons as you had a fight.

Ensuring your traumatic tales didn't reach anyone's ears
You removed the mask, that you wore for years.
Concealing your depression, you drank your tears
You burnt, you bled, dreaming about your fears.

Wearing your mask, you would skillfully pretend
As on you, others used to frivolously depend.
A helping hand you would always extend
Instilling hope, other's broken dreams you intended to mend.

With time your mask got engraved on your skin
Behind your mask, emotionally you died within.
Although alone you suffered from fate's diabolical sin
Yet flashing fake smiles, you held up your chin.

While your soul gets annihilated with pain
You bury your demons inside your brain.
Your crown of thorns you rise to attain
Amidst the chaos, your mask you wear again.

About your problems, people will never have a clue
Even if life may bruise you black & blue.
They'll never understand what you've been through
Because they selflessly, can't wear the mask as you.


Note: There are times when for the sake of your loved ones' happiness it's easier to pretend a fake smile than to express the true magnitude of your sadness to them. It's at this juncture of life when one chooses to wear a mask. A mask that although can kill us from within as we try to hide our tears behind it, but it can also craft smiles for others as it imbues hope in the hearts of our loved ones that everything is alright & that they can depend on us. This poem deals with the emotional turmoil that goes behind that mask that all of us adorn every now and then.

I see my poem upset you a bit. I'm sorry if my poem disturbed you in anyway. Nothing is more precious to me than an honest feedback, please do let me know if you felt that my poem lacked somewhere.

Oh sorry to know about your friend. To be honest with you in the past I went through a similar dark phase of life.. I'm completely over it now, but having had a first hand experience about such a thing. I wanted to talk about such stuff that otherwise the society brushes under the carpet, hoping that it would express the seriousness of the of the emotional turmoil that sometimes we go through. Thank you for your readership, I really hope that your friend's family get the strength to overcome the loss. Your kind comments always bring a smile a smile on my face

I like to read this. All I remember was Avery.

It’s a nice a poem... I could relate to it as most times I should be strong for my family. Thanks for sharing.

Hi
great poem allow me to give some insight how i think it should end
"you,wearing a mask that nothings goes throught
A mask that seals fate and traces of dreams that flew
know that anywhere that despair grew
you have brothers that wears that mask too"

hello again depression has many faces .. for some they are so disconnected no mask will hide the turmoil .

Glad you liked it

Vulnerably expressed...

Thank you.

thank you so much for your beautiful feedback

Life does gives us a 100 reasons to break down but sometimes in life all we need is just one reason to still keep moving forward & that is for the sake of sustaining the smile of our loved ones amidst the storm of chaos. Thank you for sharing your precious thoughts. I'm glad you liked my poem.

that's amazing outlook thank you so much for decorating my poem with your delightful perception

yes depression is a multilayered entity. We really don't understand the true magnitude of a person's depression until we can see the demons that dance within the head of a depressed soul. My heart does bleed with sorrow when the society treats depression so casually. Anyway thanks for your readership, I truly hope that may you smile as big as river Nile.

Thank you I'm delighted that you liked the poem.