Poem – Masks

*Note: I don’t think I said this on my last post, but I’m planning to post once weekly, on a Saturday. 

Today’s piece of featured writing is a poem. I don’t have much to say about it, except is freestyle, and I wrote it after being struck by how often people put on masks to hide their true feelings. I aptly call it…. Masks.

 

Broken hearts behind indifferent masks

We cannot see real people

Behind the walls they put up

To keep us out

 

Weeping hearts behind laughing eyes

We should not judge people

Based on their outer appearance

For painted facades can hide dark interiors

 

Hurting hearts behind angry words

We should not base our opinion of people

Off of one encounter with them

For often it is an unjust opinion

Based off of an unjust encounter

 

We cannot see people’s hearts

We cannot know what goes on behind people’s walls

So please remember

That outer appearences

Hide inner realities

 

And give grace