Sometimes I wear a mask
goes by the name “dumbness”
A facade, disguise, perhaps
but it’s truly just a test
to see who’ll go beyond
impression, dermis, warm flesh
lust for my perceived beauty
or my appalling ugliness
and treasure me for what
I keep inside my mind’s chest
Header photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels.
Xeno Hemlock 
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