"Grace"

Beneath Your Makeup
And Your Fashionable Clothes
Behind The Tears
And The Scars Of Every Yesterday You Hold
Underneath Your Perfectly Painted Nails And Toes

And Every A+
And College And Graduate Degree You Own
From Every Job You Ever Had
And All Of The Titles You Earned That Gave Pride To Your Dad

In Every Breath
Between the Cigarette You Smoke
Lies The Hurts And Fears
That Buries And Blocks Your Soul
This Is The Mask That We All Mold
To Wear To The World That Tells Us "No"

Yet When You Strip Away The Layers Of Every Insult You Were Told
And You Question It
You Loosen Its Hold
When You Take It All Apart
And You Uncover Your Heart
You Find A Core That Cannot Be Broken
You Find A Self That Is In Control
And You Discover That Grace Is Who You Are
Pure And Whole.

~Mita