Benny Selph

Fake

Fake

 

To be alive;    

You can breathe

You can feel

But something more

Are you real?

 

Covered up from head to toe

Make-up makes us cold like snow

Dress up your personality so,

We won’t see the winter in your soul

 

To be alive;    

You can breathe,

But as air comes out,

I see your breath freeze

You can feel

But the hands of frost, you conceal

So to be human

Are you real?

 

Anxiety makes us broken twigs

Depression holds us still like rocks

We ourselves, break us, we are the stones

The sticks

Mentally thrown unto emotion

Emotionally cast upon the mind

Our hearts do pound, and tears we do cry

A real nation of kids popping pills

Youth on medication

Train our minds

But you can’t standardize personality

Souls cannot break

As if tests are reality

So as of late,   

 This world we live in;

We call it fake

 

Hide yourself, front to back

Upon a throne of lies are you sat

But you cannot hold from us

A heart that is an ice trap

Told us we could find a way to the top

But gave us false maps

To be alive; you are not

You breathe frozen pride

You feel with the touch of frost

You grab with the grip of winter

You see through blocks of ice,

You built with every lie

You speak of truthful vision

But nothing have you seen

To be human;   

 You are machine

So as of late,    

This world we live in;

                            We call it Fake