Mask of Glass

Sit down, 'friend', let's have us a chat,

I'll start by saying that I smell a rat,

And you don't need to say a word.

Haven't you heard?

Now your mask is made of glass,

And I can see it clearly, your heart of brass.

Be silent.

Your words, cheap lies, they've polluted my mind,

A sweet-scented fog in which no one can find,

The truth.

But now the smell turns sour

In your final hour,

Like a whores' rancid perfume,

Her abandoned carcass rotting in your room.

Nothing can hide the stench.

Did your jaw just clench?

I can see in your eyes, the surprise, now the desperate plots you devise,

To escape one more time, scrambling to climb.

Out of this pit that you fit,

So well.

I consign you to hell.

And I just thought you should know,

I've laid out the victims in a row.

Their wounds and their scars,

Your unmistakable mark!

We're done. You hear me?

Through.

Take what you've stolen,

Eat what I grew.

Though none of it was ever for you.

And with every bite,

Know that you bought the blight,

On yourself.

With this verse perhaps I'm the first,

To break your mask of glass.

And it won't so much as scratch your heart of brass.

But now, I can see it, Alas.........!

# More important than having 'friends' is having "A friend".

          Its the smallest way in which one might learn the importance of quality over quantity!!

And most of us meet this choice, at some point in life. 

In this context, at any given day, the person with whom you are happy being yourself with, by default becomes more important than few rest.

          No matter how free we are in our thinking, 'loving someone' comes with its own parcels of human fears and limitations.....and even some unsaid expectations.

Human expectations, the root cause of most pain.

Sometimes, the hurt is worth it. Sometimes not.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.................they say, the key is to allow yourself to make the journey!! 

Live. Lose. Learn.