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542 B
Markdown
30 lines
542 B
Markdown
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Always a mask
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Held in the slim hand whitely
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Always she had a mask before her face–
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Truly the wrist
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Holding it lightly
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Fitted the task:
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Sometimes however
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Was there a shiver,
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Fingertip quiver,
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Ever so slightly–
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Holding the mask?
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For years and years and years I wondered
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But dared not ask
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And then–
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I blundered,
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Looked behind the mask,
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To find
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Nothing–
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She had no face.
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She had become
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Merely a hand
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Holding the mask
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With grace.
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— Author unknown
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From NVC, Marshall Rosenberg.
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