Fake Life

A life full of faking:

Looking from a far, so

picture perfect, and so fake.

How am I to know what's

real and what's not, when all

my life has been all but

real.

A plastic smile to whomever

I meet, always the listener,

never the speaker, afraid of letting

all the pent up emotions let 

loose.

A different story for anyone

listening, struggling to find

a way out of the fake

lives I tailored for myself.

Once a happy girl, now

a helpless woman shielded(lost)

in the midst of the spiralling

stories of a fake love.

How am I to come away,

when I've known nothing but

this since ever. Accustomed to

a life of fakery, wondering

if there is a way out.