When you first meet someone you fall in love with them.
But what you realize later is that you fell in love with the idea of new person.
Because when you first met them they had on all those pretty looking masks, but the better you get to know them, the faster their masks they had on fall, until one day you see them for who they really are.

Then the realization of the fact that you were too gullible to believe the masks they had on and not see those people for who they really are hits you.
You decide that you’re going to build your walls up, so that you don’t fall for the masks around you, when you’re in a masquerade.

You look around you and all of a sudden all these masks are not so pretty anymore, you can almost see through the faces behind them.

You put on your own mask; because that’s the only way you can make it, in life’s masquerade