How are you bringing in the new year?! I will be stepping out with my cousin Ms. Tasha Simone at her masquerade ball downtown! We decided to create our own mask, creativity at it's best! (check out her fb pg for more details) everyone be safe and have fun!
We Wear the Mask
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
-Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ill be old enough to go to fun things like this with y'all soon (:
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