I didn’t know

I didn’t know
Who you were today.
You lowered your mask
And revealed a whole person,
A whole face.
I was stunned.
 
Like the first time I saw
A shooting star
Or
Mountains high as the sky
Or
Canyons as deep as wide,
And
Great love,
The kind that’s blind.

It caught me off guard,
but it all came together
And fit:
Your pain;
You’re a real person,
Hidden like a puzzle
To which I’d misplaced
Just one,
Single
Piece
 to complete you.

In one moment,
One glimpse,
That wasn’t supposed to be,
You turned over your mask
And it all fit
Perfectly
Into your story.

And I realized I’d missed
So many pieces
of who you really were
Behind that mask.

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