she keeps asking if i'm okay
why i don't seem like myself
and it's hard to explain
when i'm not sure she'd take it seriously
i want to tell her
i trust her enough to tell her
i'm just not sure i can

"what's wrong?" she asks
sometimes more than once a day
and others have noticed, too
that i'm just not me anymore

but that's only because
i've shirked the mask
that hid this side of me

"what's wrong?"
nothing
everything