Why?

Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
Anyone can see
it doesn't fit you
Your discomfort hangs on you
like the heavy, dark wool
that scratches your fragile boy skin
makes you itch
leaves scars
Please take it off
before you forget
how to undo the buttons of the starched shirt
untie the tie that chokes you
until you have no life left

Why are you wearing that ridiculous grin?
Anyone can see
it clashes with your eyes
so full of hurt and anger
It's not easy having a good time
Even smiling makes [your] face ache
You try so hard
You've almost convinced yourself
Please take it off
before the mask adheres
and you disappear.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Out of Standard with Izy (movie dialog)
The italicized lines are from movie dialog, the first from Donnie Darko and the second from Rocky Horror Picture Show, two of my all-time favorite movies

28:06:42:12

Why do you wear that stupid man suit? *

Take it off and peek within

You might find the heart of a brute

Beating underneath your skin.

A ray of sunlight like a border

Hell and Heaven's wary truce

Come the night you sense disorder

Feel your rage come bursting loose.

You sneer at meaningless convention

Artifice in every face

Laughing off absurd pretension

Leaving you without a place

You've pared your life down to the bone

Are you afraid to die alone?

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Ella's Edge, Movie Quotes

* actual line is "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" but I took some liberties to better fit the poem. from Donnie Darko, a most awesome, thought provoking movie with an adolescent Jake Gyllenhaal.