No one wears a mask
like a clown.
“Always be happy
when anyone is around.”-
And no one else weeps
like the happy-go-lucky do,
when the pretend laughter
is all through-
When the joker removes his mask
and shows the self, sad and true,
who will stay and look
willing to bear together the real, the blue-
No one wears a mask
like a clown,
and no one cries as much
when found to be all alone-
“Behind the eyes of each person is the incommunicable loneliness of the self.” – Joseph a. Sittler
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