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Beautiful work Ingrid! So loved reading this!
Love the - 'And something deep inside
of my being began to sing.' What great words here!!
Nicely all put together. Who needs makeup anyway?
You certainly don't.

Thank you all for your thoughful and helpful comments. The poem is about my decision to no longer hide my face underneath a thick layer of makeup (I have a rare skin condition, so my skin looks a litte strange and spotted without it) and about being true to my self. True to what I really am deep down inside. I stopped being a pleaser and started to fight for me, I became my own best friend, so to say:)

This is beautiful and I love it.
Taking off my maks, and feeling the sun
on my bare skin.
It sounds like a big weight has been lifted
of our shoulder and finally we can breathe
again

Firstly, I both loved and hated the way you used the first line as the last line also. ('Today I took off my mask.') I will explain my indecision and opinion.
Loved it because..
It reiterated the fact that you were at last liberated (as the title suggests) by finally removing the mask that hid you - and this is a very important element/line to the poem.
Hated it because...
I felt like it didnt have quite the explosive impact it did at the end as I knew it should.

^^ completely personal opinion though, nothing is actually wrong with your using it this way.

Felt the sun,

as it touched my bare skin.

Breathed in life

with each pore.

^^ you have described the first feelings of freedom so simplistically, yet so beautifully. Whilst reading it, I felt as though I was by your side feeling the same sensations as you have described.

And something deep inside

of my being began to sing.

^^ your soul finally awakening to the beauty that it was hidden from because of the mask you wore. It not only shielded others from seeing the real you, but it blocked the beauty that surrounded you - a double punishment almost.

Finally free

after all these years.

^^ that would have been the most beautiful yet scary moment of your life. Beautiful because you finally wear no mask to shield you from them and them from you - you are who you are and they must just accept. But also scary because of that inkling of doubt and fear that had you wear that mask in the first place.

Overall, a really fantastic poem. I am glad that, if this poem is indeed true, you are content with your choice of removing that mask, and that it has been better and easier a transition than you would have expected.

5/5

NICE!... so great how optimistic you are about what some people sulk over for months. You are very head strong. I can wait to see the ways you view nature, and the world now that your mask is off. and how it reflects in your poetry.