Shed this skin

Let me shed this skin that I wear as my mask
Hiding from the truth so scared to look or ask
It’s not that easy to do think or say
It feels like the hardest and least trudged way
No clear cut path that leads to the end
No way to stay upright never to bend
When breaking down these walls I’ve long built
Demolishing them to bare ashes and silt
Exposing all the bareness that lay underneath
No not without clothes but feelings unsheathed
Perhaps finding common ground and much to talk about
Or just another soul rejection and could do without
I’m tired of living in these chains I want to be let loose
This mask is so suffocating and acts like a noose
I just want to be who I am and nothing more
I don’t care who’s right or wrong or who’s keeping score
That doesn’t matter to me so long as people don’t hurt others
At least if not nice then courteous to one another
Not caring about what people think is just not who I am
But every time I try to talk I feel like I am only slammed
Against a wall and I feel once more I must don my disguise
You’d only ever know how I feel if I revealed it in my lying eyes