Here I Hide

Here I hide
in my curtain of words.
"I'm fine - and you?
What have you heard?"
While all the while
I'm dying inside -
I'm invisible - hadn't you heard?

I go through the motions
Day in and day out -
They haven't a notion
I'm not in - I'm out!
If they looked in my eyes
They'd see my disguise
Is tentative at most.

I'm merely a ghost
Of my potential self.

I've put my emotions
On the very top shelf
Of the closet
In the back of my mind.

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