The Girl In The Mirror

There's that wonderful actress Her heavy stage make-up only adds to the fact that She can fool anyone into thinking she's someone she's not At school, she laughs and smiles And is everyone's friend At night, she reahes for the tissues To clean up her face, to dry her tears The show's over for the day She's done acting She looks in mirror And sees not the gorgeous, intelligent, humorous girl everyone claims she is She doesn't see her role Instead she sees her true self A tired, dead-but-still-breathing mess She wonders why no one's found her out yet Isn't it obvious that something's wrong? But no, they see the character.... the lie Never the actress behind it So, at last, she falls into a dreamless sleep To give herself the strength she'll need For another Oscar-worthy preformance That she won't be acknoleged for....