Home Mask, Office Mask And Lover's Mask I Wear To Hide My Own Self Poem by Harindhar Reddy

Children wear an animal mask just for fun or in a game
From PM to CM, doctor to actor, Delhi to gully, masks we wear
So I too wear a mask both in love and deceit what a shame!
To hide my own self under a plastic smile oh I swear
In my casual and usual fashion, even if you don't ask
Home mask, office mask, father's mask and lover's mask!

I move with a mask I don't show my face smart
Deep down my pane is broken into 1000 bits apart
If I were an actor, I would have won an Oscar,
Tears, fears and actions I hide behind the bar
Even if they try to flee, I'll tie them in a room
It's a fake persona that stands before you in gloom

If you ask me 'how're you? I'll answer I'm good in style
without being good or bad hiding real me in a guile.
I may say I know you or you may say you know me tee hee!
A mask hides the real face of you & me alike oh I see
the mask I throw in air, hope you too in fire let's face
Each other once before meeting in the grave in any case.

Ruefully I crawl, fall, wail, shout, rot and scream
With mask gleefully, I clap, laugh, sleep and dream
Remove the mask of your face: an empty stupidity,
Useless plasticity, veined elasticity and absurdity
One can peep into an inner me: a flea, real you: a bee
End the vein stream of thoughts with a cup of tea.