Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Mask Comments

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The mask controls what I am. Night never
Ends. Sun does not rise. Why must the facade
Control what is? I see many more by
Me, around me. I cannot show who I
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Robert Westlake
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Michele Hammond 23 December 2014

Overcrowded city life is dehumanizing. For all its lack of gloss, countryliving lets your soul breathe . Your poem took me in to your experience and made me look at my life. Everything I have striven for has been always a little out of reach and trying to attain a more a secure sophisticated lifestyle was only done through leaving behind relationships and cutting connection with a more natural flowing life to which I need to return. For me your poem describes an experience from a world that denies its own cruelty. Beware of the belief that financial success is the solution it is a false " god" and it may never happen. Very effective poem expressing your experience. Thank you

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