Mistaken identity - Pale Forest

Son, it’s never as it seems

The flowing of the silver streams

Where people laugh and smile and say

No day is as beautiful as today

I wear the mask of perfection

Whenever their heads turn my way

Clutched in the embrace of rejection

In a room where I must stay

In hiding

It’s where I keep my dreams alive

Residing

It’s the only place where I can survive

Even my mother never knew

That the face she saw was never true

In my room there lives no friend

For whom I must pretend

My gleaming mask upon inspection

Is where a hundred diamonds lay

And no one sees the true reflection

Where every stone is grey

In hiding

It’s where I keep my dreams alive

Subsiding

To my place in their hive …