As much try shaking off

 odd feeling can’t avoid

On face seems normalcy

  deep within I’m paranoid

All evident brave fronts

and donned blasé guise

Reflect chinks in armor

of societal compromise

Frayed old compulsions

often daunt and afflict

Daubed in hues darker

sane rationality restrict

Old emotional stockpile

intrinsically stay...

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Jaded lasting tedium

beset with gloomy cape

More I try ridding off

seems stuck at nape

Tattered and misshapen

the vilely kind of garb

Root cause for despair

inviting many a barb

Donned inadvertently

as cover up sort drape

From all harsh realities

 when I sought escape

Ever since it stayed on

not even once removed

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