Please Hear What I Am Not Saying - by Cheryl Johnson

Don't be fooled by me
Don't be fooled by the face I wear
For I wear a mask, I wear a thousand masks
Masks that I'm afraid to take off
and none of them are me
Pretending is an art that's second nature with me
but don't be fooled, for God's sake, don't be fooled
I gave you the impression that I'm secure
that all is sunny and unruffled with me
within as well as without
that confidence is my name and coolness my game
that the water's calm and I'm in command
and that I need no one
But don't believe me
Please
My surface may seem smooth, but my surface is my mask
my every-varying and ever-concealing mask
Beneath lies no smugness, no complacence
Beneath dwells the real me in confusion, in fear, in aloneness
But I hide this
I don't want anybody to know it
I panic at the thought of my weakness and fear of being exposed
That's why I frantically create a mask to hide behing
a nonchalant, sophisticated facade, to help me pretend
to shield me from the glance that knows
But such a glance is precisely my salvation, my only salvation
And I know it
That is if it's followed by acceptance, if it's followed by love
It's the only thing that can liberate me, from myself
from my own self-built prison walls
from the barriers that I so painstakingly erect
It's the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself
that I'm really worth something
But I don't tell you this, I don't dare, I'm afraid to
I'm afraid you'll think less of me, that you'll laugh
and your laugh will kill me
I'm afraid you'll think less of me, that you'll laugh
and your laugh will kill me
I'm afraid that deep-down I'm just no good
So I play my game, my desperate pretending game
with a facade of assurance without, and a trembling child within
And so begins the parade of masks
And my life becomes a front
I idly chatter to you in the sauve tones of surface talk
I tell you everything that's really nothing
And nothing of what's I'm going through my routine, do not be fooled by what I'm saying
Please listen carefully and try to hear what "I'm not saying"
what I'd like to be able to say, what for survival I need to say

登对？

那天在一个傻婆的地盘看到这样的一张照片。
很可爱吧，所以就偷偷地把它放上来了。

霓说这是登对，有吗？
愚只看到两位好朋友而已啦。
所以，霓，不要乱传绯闻哦！

我们不在一起并不奇怪，如果我们真得在一起那才奇怪。
有些人就是这样，就只能当一辈子的好朋友。
祝Elephant&Winnie the Pooh友谊万岁！