~(The Mask.)~
The mask settles over dark eyes and face
Presenting a smile for all to see
Lonely eyes look through as if to space
Can you but understand and let me be
The red nose and exaggerated lips
Belie the pain, depicting happiness
I beguile with my humor and fast quip
In the place of sorrow and loneliness
You say the mask is one and truth other
That in your play there is little of you
You enter in one roll or t’other
Real life’s separate nothing here is true
The face and mask one soul do describe
In both together the one heart inscribed
author: unknown
source: somewhere i couldn't remember.
