Media Effect

Sometimes I don’t understand why 

We all try so hard 

To be something we are not 

So much so 

That 

Everyone 

Is pretending to be 

Something 

They 

Are 

Not. 

Then what is who we are, 

If not defined by what we see 

Or think 

With our stained lenses? 

Then what is who we are, 

If not defined by this web 

Of intoxicated thoughts 

Of what we think of ourselves? 

Then what is who we are, 

If not 

Flawed 

Or ever-changing 

Dolls of this beauty 

We 

Must 

Be? 

Sometimes I don’t understand why 

We can’t just take off the mask

And be ourselves 

Even if I’m guilty

Of doing the same thing

Myself.

Maybe if we all take down the masks

Then what we thought before

Will

Change

And the fallen mask will be

The 

New 

Norm.