Are You Okay?

You ask me how I'm doing?
I say that I am fine...
In reality I'm dying.
Can you not see beneath this smile?
Can you not see behind my brighten up eyes?
No, you cannot!
It's taken from the day I was born
To put up this mask of mine.
Do you think you can tear it down?
Why don't you make the effort,
I'm crying,
I'm dying,
I'm screaming
from the inside
And bleeding from the out.
I'm afraid to say I need you,
So I'll just deal
Until you make an effort to look
To look deep within
To look beyond my smiles.
Thing is...
Are you afraid to know?
Are you afraid to get involved?
It's okay...
I'm afraid too.
I'm afraid you will judge me
Of something I could not control.
Please stop the whispering
And the snares.
I'm not a slut if I YELL...
NO, PLEASE STOP.
I am me...
So you ask me how I'm doing...
I'm going to say...
I'm okay and I pray that
Someone will see beyond my mask.