We Wear The Mask

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.

Why Should The World Be Otherwise,

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
1896

hi! i go by sharley~girl or charley~girl or shadow~dancer here on the internet
i am just getting started but will be adding more as time allows

deceived~by~the~shadows

romancing~the~shadows

shattered~reflections

shadows~of~depression

shadows~of~yesterday

shadows~of~friendship

shadows~of~the~heart

One of my favorite poems

after~awhile

my~graphic~pages

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