Thursday, October 29, 2009

Masks Comments

Rating: 0.0

Life seems so much like a masked ball,
We wear masks as we waltz around the dance hall.
We mask pain with an impenetrable smile,
We mask fear with words so crude and hostile,
...
Read full text

COMMENTS
Dilshan Boange 29 October 2009

A candid expression that bespeaks a question of identity and the sense of what is perceived as the 'real self'. The problematic social aspect that is expected to shape the individual and the dilemma of the self in its search for indetity seem thematic to this poem. A very introspective verse that carries the tone of a voice that appears to want candour in the somewhat disingenous routine of 'social norms' that are sadly inescapable.

0 0 Reply
Joseph Poewhit 29 October 2009

Makes one wonder with all the masks.

0 0 Reply
Tiya Sen

Tiya Sen

bombay
Close
Error Success