The Mole Vol XII Mask

Mask is a collection of poems dealing with the mask all men wear from birth. They are taught to be something other than themselves. In these poems, the poet or the voice is battling to strip himself of this mask. But it is difficult for men to keep their sanity by hiding behind the physical world by propping themselves up in an artificial frame. No one is who he says he is. Every man plays a character other than himself. He hides the dark seed of what he truly is in an artificial frame, dismantling part of his conscience. In this world, the poet's lover is the only one who keeps him from being a fake and living in a world he neither understands nor knows.

A man goes in search of the secrets to his lover's heart.

Some live and operate in a world they do not understand. Yet, continue and then die without knowing what went before them. We stay behind the mask until death.

A man laments his old age but finds comfort in his lover's touch and, at the same time, regrets being able to see his true face because of the mask he has worn throughout his life.