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The Mask
Don’t get in my way.
 I may look sweet.
 I may look nice.
 But, I’m not that.
 No, I wish I was.
 But I couldn’t be.
 Not really. 
 When people aren’t there
 I’m a monster.
 I can’t stand what people say
 What people do.
 So when people aren’t around,
 I scream, I yell, I stomp,
 I can’t take it anymore.
 This mask I wear.
 This nice little cover up.
 It makes me sick.
 So many things I want to say
 To those people who 
 Drive me crazy.
 But what can I do.
 This mask is stuck.
 I love to hide behind it.
 But, If people were to know
 What I thought in my head
 And said when no one’s around,
 They would see a different me.
 A girl who wants to be herself
 But can’t, 
 Because she’s afraid.

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Horace Mann: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”