My arts and crafts
Are hearts and masks
Cut out of thoughts
And glued together
Paper faces
Lines I traced
From other smiles
And other places
Take a razor
And a paper
Make a face that
Suits me better
Crude constructions
Simulations
Of expressions
I can’t fashion
Take some scissors
Strong adhesive
Bend the edges
Shape the pieces
Lips for smiling
Eyes for lying
Skin like armor
Just to hide me
My arts and crafts
Are hearts and masks
All colored neat
Inside the lines
If there’s mistakes
We can erase
And start again
With better pens
My arts and crafts
Are jokes and laughs
To cover scratches
Fresh and bleeding
Paper faces
I created
From the things
Left strewn about
vampireweather 
You seem to know how to say my thoughts better than I do…
I chose to write in ink
So no one can erase
Though I can put a lock on it I think
And hide it away in a safer place
A place where they don’t know
I’ll make sure you still have a key
I trust your promise that you won’t show
All the now hidden lines that you see
There is not a lot I want tonight
Not a great or grander plan
Just to know that everything is alright
With my dearest kind of friends
There is not a lot of wishes left
Not much I would request
I just wish I were a little better
And could give you both the best
I don’t need to have the world
Just to mend some pretty hearts
I wish I could undo the hurt
And show you both how great you are
I could sleep content again
Knowing that my closest friends
Lived in peace and openness
Safer than the days have been
Thank you.
Your Arts and crafts touched me here, where my soul is held so dear. You lifted my tired soul and brought it some relief from the pain caused by Time, the thief.
I have looked around this sad world for years maybe you could make me a mask to hide my tears and fears. Thank you for provoking my thoughts I thought they had long gone and left me alone perhaps to assume that I was wrong
I’m honored you were touched by my thoughts. Thank you so much for sharing yours. I look forward to hearing more of them 🙂
a chord of my heart…your art and craft…
amazing!!!
I felt a deep weird pain in these lines, so unfamiliarly familiar…
words lack…
Your words are a beautiful response. Thank you
Really? Thanks then for the compliment.
And yup, welcomed you are!!!
Enjoy, without any pain, unlike the above. 😀
To be without pain seems almost unthinkable, but enjoyment can coincide with pain at times. Thank you
You are heartly welcomed Vamp weather!
And yes, you are right. But again, you are right. 😀