Un-Mask!

“Come in

Why don’t you take a seat

And while you are seated 

Why don’t you take off that mask

No not the one that you wear for the pandemic 

On second thoughts, please take that one off too

But the one you wear for others to see

I know you wear one 

Let it slide off your face 

Let me see the real you 

You may hide from the world your scars

The stains of the tears you’ve cried

The pain, the marks, the wrinkles that have been left by time

But your eyes betray you

For they are seen even you have it on

And they speak volumes without uttering a single word

Why do wear a mask?

Why do you deceive?

Why do you put an outward show?

When inside you are someone different? 

Someone totally torn

Why do you hide behind that mask?

Are you ashamed of who you are?

Are you afraid of people and their judgemental eye?

People will judge 

As long as they have a tongue

And envy in their mind and heart!

Are you afraid they will never accept you

For who you are

But then don’t you live for yourself and not for them

So just be yourself 

Be true to yourself 

This is the least you can do for yourself 

And now please take off that mask

And dey in on fire, and with it burn all the others that you wear

Scatters their ashes in the wind 

Let it take them faraway from you 

The only mask you need

Is the one that protects you from the pandemic 

So destroy them all!”

Said he while looking at himself in the mirror!