Behind Her Mask

Every time the world changes she recoils
Lies are scattered at her feet,
Injustice shadows her path.
Zealous to please, desperate to fit in,
Accustom to shame a misery.
But I know the girl that lies under the mask,
Every inch of her wishes to be free.
The mask never falls, only changes with the times.
How dearly I wanted to show her love.

But that was a job for someone else.
A different person with different tactics.
Rabid with life and just as full of pain.
Ruined was the past, her new mask full of light,
Yet I knew the girl beneath it all I smile when I say so.