Today I wait
Today I sit alone
Today I wonder how it got to this point
How the world flipped upside down and I cry
Today I watch
Today I sleep
Today I think about the things I never said
The things I’ve always wanted to say, and they’re alive
And I wanted to be just like you
And you wanted me to be everything you thought was right
So I wore a mask of your own creation
But someday
I will find the strength to throw away that mask
And tomorrow I’ll have my face
Tomorrow you’ll have your face
We just have to keep going
Until society lets us live our lives
Without having to conform to the roles they thought we should be
Tomorrow we’ll all have faces and they’ll show who we really are inside
But it’s scary
But it’s the unknown
But it’s everything we ever wanted
Because all we wanted was to be set free and it’s terrifying
But it’s different
But it’s so strange
But what if they don’t wanna see our faces
Because we don’t wanna see our own faces; I know, it’s scary
I wanted to fit in my whole life
So I lived my life hiding myself away from the world
And I wore a mask of their own creation
But tomorrow maybe I’ll throw that mask away
Because I know there are other ways to set yourself free
I don’t always like my true face, I admit
Sometimes I want to hide
Honestly, that’s okay because tomorrow doesn’t have to be tomorrow
Eventually we will find our true faces
Someday we’ll all have faces
They’ll be the faces we want to have
They’ll be the faces we were too afraid to show
Because who knows who’ll accept you in the end?
Who knows who’ll be beside you?
Whatever happens, you have a face and a voice and they’re so beautiful
You don’t have to hide
I know it’s scary to take off the mask
I know it’s scary to see your own true face
But you don’t have to be scared
Because I know
I get it
I’m still learning to take off the mask
I’m still figuring out how to show people what it’s like to hang out in my head
We can do this together
We can find our faces together
Because someday we’ll have a face and it’ll be our’s to show
Our’s to scream to the sky, “Look! We made it!
We found ourselves after years of looking!”
Look in the mirror
Your face is in that soul somewhere
Reach through and grab it
Because tomorrow we’ll all have faces
And they will belong solely to us.
(Copyright Shadow Wolf Studios 2020)