dailydoodles

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 over-wise, 

In counting all our tears and our sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whil e

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 

Why must we put up this fake facade in order for people to think we are fine. What a different world we would live in if we shared our feelings.