diff --git a/miscellanea/The-Mask.md b/miscellanea/The-Mask.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6467e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/miscellanea/The-Mask.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Always a mask +Held in the slim hand whitely +Always she had a mask before her face– + +Truly the wrist +Holding it lightly +Fitted the task: +Sometimes however +Was there a shiver, +Fingertip quiver, +Ever so slightly– +Holding the mask? + +For years and years and years I wondered +But dared not ask +And then– +I blundered, +Looked behind the mask, +To find +Nothing– +She had no face. + +She had become +Merely a hand +Holding the mask +With grace. + +— Author unknown +From NVC, Marshall Rosenberg.