By Amelia Rubin
my professor says
“having a personality
is just having a mask,”
because we all mold
and chip away at
parts of ourselves.
we conform to other people
sat in the room.
loud and thundering
to match their style
or calm and collected
in the wake of someone
else’s storms.
she says we all wear masks.
i think we’re all
made up of masks
because we’re never the same.
never consistently
happy or sad,
anxious or mad.
we’re made up of masks
because we’re messy,
and we match to those
masks around us.
get closest to
being maskless
depending on what
kind of person
surrounds us.
