Step after step
Laugh and smile, hide the pain
When in actuality, behind the smile
Is a broken heart, a soul torn apart
That hurts with every breath taken

You wouldn't know this person is hiding this pain
Because everyone's picking on her in class
And she just brushes it off

But at night, when you are asleep
She is deciding whether to kill herself
Or to endure the pain of being hunted

At school, she started to fade
She hasn't eaten in days
When she's in the bathroom she is
Either throwing herself against the stall door
Sticking her finger down her throat
Or crying until she is just shaking

Her internal pain has gotten so great
That she has started to inflict pain on herself
So that she may dull the pain in her heart

But you wouldn't know this
Because she cleans herself up
And puts on a bright, happy attitude
Like a mask that is slowly eating away the wearer

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