Underneath every surface

Is something a little deeper.

I never thought your pain

Would turn into something this.

I wish I could help; but I can only stand and watch

Watch the acting, watching the lies.

Watch as you hide, and burying yourself deep inside.

I wish I had a shovel,

I wish I could be a shovel, to help you dig.

Dig up, not down.

Dig yourself out of the lies

Show everyone who I see

Not the actor they see.

But I can only watch.

No helping, unable to move.

Afraid to speak, afraid to say anything.

Just left watching.

Watching the jokes

And watching the act.

Watching the play,

The play of lies.