The Great Pretenders
We are the great pretenders. We struggle and battle ourselves, but when in the
presence of others, magically our worries are shoved down, a smile put on. We
try so hard to please everyone, show everyone we’re all right. But they don’t
see the pain when we’re alone. The tears we can’t cry, the anxiety of trying
to muster a “smile.” They don’t see how we sit alone, wanting to join in the
activities, but too afraid of saying the wrong things, too frightened because
you don’t know what mood your in, how you’ll act. But when push comes to shove,
a laugh and a joke can always be reached. We’re too afraid to let others know
what’s going on- it’s a weakness to us. They just couldn’t understand.
How we can be alone even if we’re the life of a party. Because behind that laugh
and joke, is a secret hidden pain that slowly eats us alive. It’s a pain that
makes us forget who cares, makes us forget what living is for. You want strength,
you wanna know who the strongest are? Well that’s us. Because we live every
day, battling, fighting, living. It’d be so easy to give in, it’d be so easy
to end it all, but somehow we get the strength to live every day. We get the
strength to give a smile, laugh and hide our secret pain from others.
Yes, we are the great pretenders.
