Masks
Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 12:04 pm
There are times as a child
That you think nobody knows
Simply because you never told.
A piece of knowledge you carry carefully
Like a piece of fine China.
How could anyone know
If you had never told a soul?
One day grandma asked me,
"Where's your sister?"
"In there with grandpa,"
I pointed.
At that moment, the mask fell from her face.
I saw her then...
That broken woman who I had thought was grandma.
What I'd carried for years
Silently shattered at my feet.
So now I knew.
I knew she knew,
But I didn't know if she knew
That I knew she knew.
Because we all have masks.
I wear mine well
And as usual, I never said a word.
That you think nobody knows
Simply because you never told.
A piece of knowledge you carry carefully
Like a piece of fine China.
How could anyone know
If you had never told a soul?
One day grandma asked me,
"Where's your sister?"
"In there with grandpa,"
I pointed.
At that moment, the mask fell from her face.
I saw her then...
That broken woman who I had thought was grandma.
What I'd carried for years
Silently shattered at my feet.
So now I knew.
I knew she knew,
But I didn't know if she knew
That I knew she knew.
Because we all have masks.
I wear mine well
And as usual, I never said a word.