Masks Poem by Marien Jacobs

It seems as if everything is going so fine
While your feelings wanna tear you up
Deep down inside
Masks…

On the outside you seem solid, stable and calm
People give praises, say your pure and living High
But emptiness deep down inside drives you insane
Nothing, just nothing seem to fill this void…

No knowledge, wisdom, works or deeds,
Only the One that seems so far away…
You’ve got all the knowledge
Running wild, working like mad

But between all these ‘things’
You’ve lost the Person in it all!

Now the void inside grows deeper every day,
You wanna get out,
Seeking, running wild,
Trying to just succeed somehow!

But caught in a web of religion,
You’re feeling kind of lost
You wanna get out…
You need to find the Person in it all!

(2006)