Everyday490Please respect copyright.PENANAFzZzLo9jV3
I put on this great little homemade mask. 490Please respect copyright.PENANAIDfZtyGRI3
cracked papier mache,490Please respect copyright.PENANAESkhyVV40C
cheery smiling face.
^_^
and everyday you walk past.490Please respect copyright.PENANAtXcO4N2gew
the hand holding the mask trembles but490Please respect copyright.PENANA2oCpbcLePN
stays, firmish, like some lone priest 490Please respect copyright.PENANAHzTT3BEqWm
at some abandoned temple, the frail figure 490Please respect copyright.PENANANUqCJ5dGEc
who amidst those tourists490Please respect copyright.PENANAiXL7SxxJls
is the only one left who believes in the gods 490Please respect copyright.PENANAfJG0ENKQQf
his precious church was built to exalt.
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smiling490Please respect copyright.PENANAsYXSkjQp4c
happy490Please respect copyright.PENANAAhUkOSVysV
looking ahead490Please respect copyright.PENANAGrTYE0h7Ps
please don’t touch that.
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we want to get that mask off, right490Please respect copyright.PENANACRh7FAAAWt
but lost in those surging waves of inky, shrieking, metaphors490Please respect copyright.PENANA4bhMYLv9V8
and the neverending tears from a splattered brush of fingers 490Please respect copyright.PENANAKIiZN7Nqg2
and gross bloody tendons dripping from a heart onto the carpet490Please respect copyright.PENANAOgPsNtAd91
the mask clutches me in terror.
It’d be cruel to take it off now, in this storm. I need to keep it safe490Please respect copyright.PENANA4sHbrIARDg
sheltered from rain that patters away at it490Please respect copyright.PENANAt0In7zHaj4
—gnawing. Little sparkling fangs ripping out fibres.
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Maybe later, though,490Please respect copyright.PENANAuUPlagI3By
when the sun comes out again,490Please respect copyright.PENANAAxhSpgXCVB
I'll throw the mask away, into the fluffy air490Please respect copyright.PENANA9MohTybUZG
kiss it goodbye490Please respect copyright.PENANAAdUydzhQxT
and skip, childlike, into the warmth of something happy.