Truth Masks
written by: Jaya Avendel
@AvendelJaya
In the golden globe lamplight
Fiction meets reality
Black against white
The self-defining girls dress in
Vegan leather as Cruella.
Red cherry gummies
Strip my teeth ivory
Peppermint for eyes, I stare
The boys with broken gaits
Dress as Data.
No one recognizes them
Under the layers of make up
Pale-faced android who, golden eyed,
Traversed the galaxy
Painting humanity’s darkest truths in color
Though, tin man, he claimed himself heartless.
I dressed as myself
I turned my insides outwards
For a day
I spoke the truth.
JULY 2021 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords.com
Jaya Avendel is a writer living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she dips her pen into the inkwell of fantasy and prose, dabbling with the stories in the forest around her. She writes at Nin Chronicles.
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