The Mask

– a place to hide –

         – a place to hide –

You now find 
Need to hide,
Where time
Sets disguise,
Be the mask
Fits façade,
Meant to hold
Live inside,
There be bold 
Reinventing
Fatiguing soul,
Best obscured
In the interim,
One ways discern
Thence half alive,
To suffer return
Elude hell’s burn
In this interval bide,
Held a place to hide! 

                   © Jean-Jacques Fournier

                                      written in Sweetsburg
          		                November 20, 2010
					 edit April 15, 2023

Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Kiss of Spain, by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier