• Shield♄

    My cheerful smile
    My bubbly voice
    My personality
    My shield

    Shield from pain
    and broken hopes
    Shield from life
    and all the problems

    Made from loneliness
    and terrible thoughts
    that argue in my mind
    and demand to be let out

    When you see me walk by
    in all my happy glory
    do you feel jealous
    Or do you see past
    my everyday charade

    I hide from my fears
    so that I will be strong
    but hiding only makes
    new fears that find you
    cowering in a pile
    of pieces of a broken heart

    Nothing helps
    Nothing heals
    Nothing changes the fact
    That I live behind a shield