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Title: the mask!!!!
Author: Sandy Sandell
Date Submitted: 1/2/2008
Email: sandrabettink@hotmail.com

 
Poem: For many years I loved and laughed
enjoyed being positive and outgoing.
I worked really hard and lived like a song
partying and socialising all night long.
I laughed out loud, I helped out tirelessly
I would know the answers to problems a many

Who was I?... You may well ask.
A hidden face and person behind my mask.
Behind the mask I was shy and demure
Scared of being unloved and not liked or secure
I fought the odds for many years
until no longer sane between the ears.

I suffer these days as I don't drink anymore
and my Bipolar disease is what is at the core.
I had a mask for many years
that hid the true me from myself and my peers....