Skin Deep

Oh yes I see your stunning beauty
So brightly and vainly shining
And yes I saw those sparkling eyes
Hiding far within all that you knew best

The tortured regret you tried to forget
That you try so hard and cover so well
With your black lashes and crimson lips
A carefully painted cosmetic mask

It doesn't tell them that you need help
Or how your insides were hollowed of emotion
How you're alone and you're dead inside
How a single saline tear could ruin your disguise

Your red lips curl into smiles so sweet
Smoothing away the screaming thoughts in your head
Glossing over the fact that you're not perfect
Telling them wonderous lies through your white skin

They'll never see through the blush on your cheeks
The pain slowly consuming your all
The hurt growing beneath those eyes
That glow and glimmer in envy green

You're drowning gracefully in suffering
But I can't reach far enough to help you out
The most beautiful empty case I've ever seen
Slowly filling up with dark despair

I see it swimming into the windows of your soul
Your face quickly changes into something more dark
A tear slips from your painted right eye
And I wipe it gently from my left

Dropping the mirror and feeling the break
I close the perfectly made up eyes
As I leave behind a shattered reflection
In a sharp mosaic of shattered glass

~~I wrote this while listening to this angry song and putting on make-up... inspiration is a strange thing.~~