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The Mask and the Dagger


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. __Oscar Wilde

I no longer wear my mask that I might see with most honest eyes where I am and who I’ve always been.

The truth’s been revealed in my acceptance of Home and Kinship, in the profound recognition of the story of Love and Peace.

I always found that wearing a mask made the sun too bright. It rendered blindness like a dagger whose holes were already punctured. It formed indifference like an injury too deep to notice.

If you insist, I’ll wear it, but I’ll wear it as an artist painting a canvas revealing what’s within, as a child whose imagination has not yet found war, murder, rape, or greed.

 Either way, the truth shall be unmasked.


© 2014 Mark Richard Prime


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