Bare

Bare
Katherine Rochholz
Copyright 2017

I look into the mirror

What I see isn't real

What my eyes see is a mask

A projection that I have cast

The end of my play is near

To the sword blade I must kneel

The lies I tell all who ask

The truths coming out at last

My true self is becoming clear

The mask is breaking like rusted steel

I have been taken to task

Now laid bare is my past

I look in the cracked mirror

I see what is now real

My eyes see the busted mask

And the end to the projection I had cast