Sometimes I wonder when I'm alone
A day when spent alone with minds
I wonder what I really am
Which mask I put, the use or kind?
The necessity unfounded even now
I do not know, when I began with it
Such masks I have, for now and then
It never minds if my face doesn't fit
I need a mask, need it so much
It turns me mad, makes me strange
My brain at work, no- never at peace
I wonder when I craved the cage
This mask right now, that mask surely
I need it now, no time must be lost!
If I don't put my mask on time
The world might see a glimpse, a cause
I have learnt never to take them off
Such colors, sizes, the sheer enormity!
My habits trained, my mind attached
Even one of them lost- a Calamity!!
My friends, my fiends, my family
I don't think I know a difference in them
For none of them know who I really am
I doubt I know myself- what a shame
I don't think I can describe myself
A root, some cause, all beyond me
In the world of hectic rush and din
I wonder if I have, Freedom to be Free?
These masks are my refuge, they are
I cannot deny such a truth ever
But sometimes I wonder if my real face
Is what I needed more, a better cover?
©AkshayaGadre