<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494711" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mask</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">yes, there was this man in the village<br>he was happy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet, no one know who he really was<br>even until death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all his life he wore the mask of the happy man<br>dignified and praised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when he lived till 60 he wore the mask through and through<br>he was famous for his love and charity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">till his funeral the people cried<br>there i saw the mask, smiling and always willing to help</div><div style="margin:10px 0">always empathizing, always willing to understand<br>the plight of each and everyone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he was buried a happy man<br>time buries all including the mask of the happy man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">if only they had taken time to dig him out from his grave<br>they could have seen the rotten ugliness beneath the mask of happiness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">let him go, those who knew later said<br>he was a happy man, he served us so well, let him be, we pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i know the ugliness of his true self<br>but i guess, no one likes to hear what it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my lips are sealed<br>now we must praise him again: posthumously.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494711" data-title="The Mask de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="yes, there was this man in the village he was happy. yet, no one know who he really was even until death. all his life he wore the mask of the happy man dignified and praised. when he lived till 60 he wore the mask through and through he was fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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