Overcoat

Do you remember that tale?
Called overcoat, not a fairy tale
Aren’t we all wearing that coat?
Hiding secrets beneath that coat
Secrets about our shallowness
Secrets about our nakedness
How bare and raw we are
Yet able to pull off a perfect picture
A picture with crisp and creased overcoat
Beneath that coat everything is broken
Beneath that coat everything is torn
Like a hollow husk
Than what is all this fuss

By Mehreen Fatima

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