(Collaboration with @Kagiso 💙)

Have we blurred reality to suit our convenience?
Have we closed the curtains of our souls?
Have we chosen how we wish to endure?
Have we locked the doors of self love?

Have we decided on the tools and methods that are best?
Or have we decided to bury ourselves in distraction?
Have we chosen the right bullet for the gun in our hands,
Trembling in fear as we feel insecure?

Have we been in an acting school all along?
Have we decided for our smiles to be strategic?
Have we let others call are pain "crocodile tears"
Those people truly don't know how it feels.

Have our hearts been complying with this method?
Have our minds found...