Look closely and tell me, what do you see?
Can your eyes tear away the skin I wear every day?
Can your hands leave me bare, exposed in this rain?

To the world I appear, cloaked to hide my shame.
I smile and I laugh, but let not a tear down my face.
This life I lead is as a beautiful masquerade.

I crave your attention, yet I still cannot ask.
So I sit back and stare with hopeful, hungry eyes.
I want you to see me, I want you to know me.

Drowning, I lay here in a pool of my own blood,
Betrayed by my own thoughts and left here to die.
A poisoned mind that carried a poisoned life.

Look closely at me, closer this time.
My lips cannot speak, so I'll have to trust your eyes.
I'm falling apart, as I have been from the start.