#BehindTheFilter
Society taught me
I can be what I want to be
Unless I say too much
Be a lady and act as such
Keep my head down and appease
Everyone else and learn to please
But behind the filter, beyond the mask
Lies a woman never afraid to ask
Questions that are most essential
Bursting with overwhelming potential
While inside she’s screaming out loud
“If only I made myself proud.”
Well-mannered fronts give way
To untamed fire, shining bright as day
Dulled by the filter of her every day life
She balances on the edge of a knife
Between what’s real and what’s fake
Masking herself for other people’s sake
Everyday she makes a choice
On whether she’s going to quiet her voice
Or remove all pretense and disguise
Taking away a filter of enormous size
Because underneath the guise of politeness
There’s a certain brightness
To her personality and outer glow
The glow that she’s afraid to show