Pretense

I saw someone else in you that day.
Someone other that the carefully constructed guise you often play at.
No one would believe me.
So perfectly you have built this role.
So completely you have become exactly what you wanted,
or what the world required of you.
But there it was.
In that brief moment I could see something new.
I would not dare to say that it was truly "you"
but it was something seldom seen by man.
Was this an accident?
A sudden breaking in the wall?
or was this also carefully calculated?
Just another perfectly constructed layer built to throw us off the scent?
In that quick moment that your eyes rolled up
I caught the pleading in the foreground.
In that quick second that we shared I saw something was always there.
I looked inside and I saw a monster.
and with it, fell in love.