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masks.
June 27, 2021
With eyes so blue,
he saw right through,
the facade of composed indifference.
He exposed her weakness,
the false resilience,
tore down her walls of protection.
Saw he instead for who she was,
A girl in the world,
lost,
and desperate to be loved.
© Wajida S., Shrewsbury, MA
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