The Mask of A Screen
Perfect Happy Exciting Is how our lives may seem on a screen But there is so much more That is not seen Nobody sees The tears The stress The bags under our eyes The slamming of doors The escalated arguments The restless nights Because it is so easy to cover it all up It is so easy to slap on a filter Or simply not post what we don’t want to be seen What we don’t want our lives to seem Just under a month ago, AP exams were in session. I can clearly remember the hours and hours of studying I put into them, the many rounds of tears I shed, and the horrendous amounts of sleep they deprived me of. I especially struggled with AP chemistry, which my friend Medha and I decided to study for together. It was just when the weather started truly feeling like summer. The drastic change from a high of 50° to 90° was definitely unforgettable. Medha and I decided to study in her basement, to escape the scorching heat. In the shorts I dug out from last summer, I sat down on a couch that I would s