As I get older, it becomes more and more difficult to wear my mask - TopicsExpress



          

As I get older, it becomes more and more difficult to wear my mask - "WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyesThis debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile & mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!" (1896 Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:49:47 +0000

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