Masquerade

Masquerade

Do you see reality, the abstract flashlight lighting it brightly?

Do you try not to look away when it gives you a fright?

Does it make you prey harder at night?

Does it make you reach quicker for the substance delight?

Questions that frighten and nerves that tighten

The older you become the more you realize we’re all in mortality’s net

Frailties are the eye wideners that make you shiver on a summer’s day

Suddenly there’s evening shade and the demon of death is smiling at its prey

This is reality’s rock face; see the child suffering and parents in despair

The tears that fall and fists tight in an angry squall

Confusion and questions for which there’s no answer

The corral of life that cuts as a knife

But witness the human spirit, the deathly sick child laughing at Disney

In the background we weep for their suffering and misery

Trying to fathom between reason and faith

We arrive at no solution and anyway, the end is death