2002-01-09 - 11:09 a.m.

the facade

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes-

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

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Why would the world be overwise,

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar-author----------. I have always known I live behind a facade. It is hard to come out from behind it, even with those who are closest to me.

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