Being lonely is so wearing

Eyes averted fingers drum

Lasering of furtive glances

Pain of self-conscious hum

Repressed passion lashes

Barricades vast but hidden

Terror of getting through

Fears that come unbidden

Desire versus inhibition

Self-image sorely racked

By corroded self-esteem

Egos that failure hacked

Behaviours only reinforce

Self-loath...

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Evident charade in milieu

each with made up guise

In world of make believe

full of social compromise

Realism often shrouded

on face of false pretense

Sensitivity paid no heed to

justifying fake defense

Apparent picture painted

with every hue gone awry

From projected on surface

 actuality remains a far cry

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