Poem
As I was looking online for a poem I could relate to, I stumbled upon a poem called “Masks”. This poem is about how it’s easier to cover up how you feel by pretending to be someone you’re not. I found the poem on a social media website called Tumblr, which is where people go to post and re-blog things they can relate to. Her screen name is Owltheboom and the only thing she posts on her page are poems. Most of her poems are about miserable, gloomy subjects like anxiety, depression and anorexia, which makes me feel like this website is her outlet to express what she can’t in the real world.
This poem spoke to me the first second I read it. It made me feel like there was someone out there that understood how I feel day to day. In high school, I was with the “popular” crowd but always felt alone. I have many friends, but continually feel like I am the second choice. In my core friend group there is over 15 girls, but I never feel like I fit in. I was the “funny one” who made everyone laugh, but was always left out. I think that I relate to this poem because I wear a mask of my own.
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I am always laughing and making jokes because I feel like it’s easier to laugh with “friends” than to laugh with nobody at all. This statement means that
The last line fits me because always being the one left out, I feel like I would rather be with my group than to have them not invite me at all. I guess one could say it’s worse to be left out, when really it is worse to be invited somewhere you are not