The deep red, velvety curtain shades her from reality

A mask to hide all sorrows

This thick wall of shame to cover all past sins and tragedies. 

 

To the world she is an enduring, ambitious women 

She covers up every tear and woe

Carries on like nothing damaged her. 

 

Painful, deep, deadly

The feeble, young girl shrieks for sanity behind the red walls

Her childhood sits behind that velvet curtain waiting to escape. 

 

"Quit crying" they'd say

...She did. 

 

Death, love, distress 

never harmed her again

Closed off from her ever racing mind. 

 

She was alive but emotions were lost

Break out! Break out! 

Never could she. 

 

Empty, beautiful, nothingness

The child wept behind the curtain.