The mask is slipping

Catch it before it falls

Revealing your true self

The one who doesn’t belong

What if they knew?

The dark room you sat in

The nights you wished

Prayed

To be someone else

What if they knew?

The racing questions

How can you walk among people

Who have so much more value

Than you ever did

What if they knew?

That even now, years later

You’re rethinking your whole identity

The systems you lived that don’t serve you

The imposter sleeping in your closet

Greeting you every morning as you wake up

What if they knew?

Of the little girl

Who searches for protection

Validation

That she too is worthy of success

Without having been born into it

The mask is slipping

Let it fall

Crash onto the ground

A million little pieces

Never to be reconstructed again