Masked Drama

The curtain lifts and I fear its fall

Standing to laugh at nothing at all,

Misunderstanding love as it crawls

Scraping away my human role

Shackled to play at the theatre stage

Entertain foreign words within this cage

Blinded, I follow its script with blight,

Laying hollow below the spotlight

Enacting empty plays upon no one's eyes

Tuning to moans and our dried cries

Faded, I dance the whispers in our lines

Losing ourselves in their marvelous lies

Finding no "me" in my lone thinking

I mask away those selfish yearnings

Behind the sole vacant lives on stage

Like a puppet with no self to wage

Now hazily we tear into each other

Picking apart, what's "you" in another

Dull looks and empty phrases

Hiding behind the millions of faces

Masking below dramatic weather

Storming and unchanging forever

The climax drawing ever nearer

Taking aim so you could hear

The shot in my wavering feelings

Never dulling my heart's bleeding

Curtain falls, clad in dark I behold

Behind my mask nothing crawls