Every where we go People are wearing masks Of all shapes Of all sizes For their For our "Protection" We're told. Yet, we have all been masked Long before last year Ever since children When we were told Or we realized We "needed" a mask To interact with this world If we were to survive. Some chose the mask of The girl girl The good boy The good student The good partner The good mom The good dad The good teacher The good citizen The good sheep And "they" Others Told us what good Needed to look like. Words like Selfless Kind and generous Virtuous Righteous Philanthropist Thrown around For praise and validation. Superiority. Yet some daredevils Took the opposite mask (According to others) To assert their choices Their freedom Their independence Yet polarizing to the other side The bad girl The bad boy The bad kid The bad man The bad woman The bad mother The bad father The bad citizen. And other words like Selfish Arrogant Unthoughtful or uncaring Uneducated Thrown around To shame these people Attempting to get them and others To conform Into submission. Obedience To God, King or Country Teacher or parents Manipulation Of each Sovereign Beings Inner wisdom. An inner and outer Polarization. When behind These masks Human beings Are diverse Complex Light and dark Shadows and shades Of all variety Of feelings Of needs Of desires Of dreams Of beliefs Of ideas. And most of these Have even been given From the outside From some kind of "authority" Or some kind of message On some kind of screen Attempting to program A vulnerable mind That only if we Do certain things Buy certain things Get certain things Will we ever be loved Ever be wanted Ever be happy Ever be successful Ever satisfied Ever be safe. Yet all this time It was a lie The mask The narrative The story The choice. We were told we had to choose Between "good" and "bad" Between parts of us Therefore having to sacrifice Very real other parts of us. Our fullness Our aliveness Our richness Our complexity. These have all been masks Everyone has masks Sometimes many masks Choices made By an unconscious mind. But, what will you chose now? As you realize this sacrifice you made Years ago To give up your freedom? To give up your vastness? To conform Or fight conformity? Are you so black and white? Or many colors of the rainbow? More diverse More complex That you ever imagined And more free Than you even knew. Are you daring enough to reclaim The you Behind the many masks And choose to live To really live As scary As terrifying As it may at first seem? To be you To be real To be free To be love Do you remember? Who you are!?
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