Hurting Poem by Teens

I wrote this when I was home and crying and telling myself no one understands me!

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Everyone has a mask they hide behind. I've put on a mask of emotions since I started going to school. My friends never understand, and I can't make them, it's hard to explain, and it's like...

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My Mask

Published by Family Friend Poems May 2009 with permission of the Author.

She is happy, I'm sad.
She has friends, I don't.
People understand her;
No one understands me.
She feels happiness and love.
I feel pain and sadness.
She doesn't cry;
I cry all the time.
She will have someone to love.
I never will
She is pretty in pink,
I'm dark and black
She is warm inside.
I'm always cold.
She doesn't bleed tears.
I do every day.
Her heart is red.
Mine is black.
She doesn't have emotions.
I have emotion.
Her emotions don't run her life.
Mine do.

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by Brittany, California
12 years ago

Everyone has a mask they hide behind. I've put on a mask of emotions since I started going to school. My friends never understand, and I can't make them, it's hard to explain, and it's like I'm suffocating. but there is hope, there is for all of us. We all have that one person that completely understands. That one person that given the chance saves us many times from the brink of death. You just have to find and know who that person is, and your set for life. I promise and I never break a promise.

by Claire
12 years ago

I hide behind my mask everyday. Except when I'm alone, then I cut, we al have our secrets behind our masks, some, just are really bad

by Rachael
13 years ago

You'r poem is so true in many ways. We all hide behind a mask of fear and lonliness..... I also feel that way everyday, that we all just want to be loved and not feel out of place.

by Hope, Fort Worth
13 years ago

I hide behind a mask everyday for family and friends...they don't realize that I hurt inside. my family thinks I'm happy, but truth is... I'm not happy, my mom is locked away for a very long time and it kills me inside to see it happen, so I put on this so called "mask" and live happy on the outside but not on the inside.