The mask is slipping

I can’t allow my real face to show

I hid away my true desires

The wholeness I suppose

Why to be so introverted

And yet hope for a genuine connection

It doesn’t suit me to be open to others

So I close off and hide away

My feelings kept hidden

My happiness stored away

So that I can keep hoping secretly

That one day I’ll be free from me

A day to spread my wings and fly like a monarch

Slowly opening from my shell

And getting to know others more freely