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Illusion

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I put up walls to hide who I really was.
I tried to create the persona I thought
you wanted me to be, but those
carefully constructed illusions didn’t hold up, and so

you saw right through me.

I put on masks, and tried to smile and pretend
that everything was fine, just fine… but
I’ve never been a very good pretender, and so

you saw right through me.

I thought I needed to become someone I’m not, but I
finally realized I couldn’t hide;
There was, in fact, no need to hide.
I simply had to be who I truly am

because even then – as it turned out –
you saw right through me

as if I wasn’t even there,
as if I were, indeed,
just an illusion.

The Daily Post daily one-word prompt: Illusion

Order to Go

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It’s not an order, necessarily,
nor a mere suggestion.

It’s something in between.

Maybe an insistent affirmation that
you can do this, so…
do it!

So when the coach gives the order to go,
I go, knowing that yes, I can do this,

and knowing that – in short order –
I’ll be able to do even more.

That’s just the order of things in life.

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The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Order