Slam+Poetry-+The+Mask

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**__The mask__ **


 * It’s something that we put on our face for many reasons. **
 * All the reasons that involve hiding our faces. **


 * We all wore one at least one time. **
 * Not for a play, halloween, but on our daily life. **
 * We wore it to cover our face. **
 * Our face is the truth, our identity. **


 * When we cover them, we live a different life. **
 * Because we believe that people around us hate the truth about us, **
 * We pretend to be someone else, someone they would like. **


 * People may hate the real you, **
 * but I don’t care whether you are gay or straight. **
 * I want to know the real you. **
 * Because real you is what makes you who you are. **


 * I know you, and **
 * I know you don’t like to pick on others, **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">or swear in public, or steal from others. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I know you just do them to get some attention. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t care about what others think of real you. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be happy to be you. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even if you are physically, or mentally challenged, be happy to be you. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take off that mask, and look in the mirror. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that is the way you were meant to be **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m glad I had no mask. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am even happy to look at myself in the mirror and say “This is who I am” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you?? **