Shadow Mask

Shadow Mask

 

Some wear more Mask than others do; more complex, strange and worn. Some maybe weather torn while others are beaten. Some may scorn them as they pass them by. Others with similarity may not know them or discard them or just leave them by the storm to hide.

The shadow sits by his fire, polishing them with gentle care; then adds another Mask. he too knows them all with a simple laugh and a smile the Mask you wear. For another, he may remove it... For it his Mask you wear? ...

You out there may light shine upon the bearer of the unhidden Mask somewhere and someday he will be waiting. Until you himself sits by his fire... And you hand back the Mask he was wearing as the shadows and the Mask and all Mask shadows disappear.

For the light and darkness are one and the same as they fold circle on itself without beginning nor end, the shadow is, will never end for the Mask is strange and complex for some as we all sit and wait by his fire without end.

 

 Eric 20008 

Reviews

[SweetNutmeg]

Wow, heavy. We all wear masks, some more consciously so, but we all do it. Like Wesley, I enjoyed this unusual prologue.

[Shep]

Thank you... I try to open my Novels with a poem related to the book.

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Once time masks were important subject of human rituals. Today at our western society we lost any ability to connect with our a,past. The mask became synonymous for false and cowards etc. Your piece have,some a tributes of ancient times. It's have light flow and reader almost can levitate through your words.

[Shep]

thank you for your review

[Wesley Dingler]

This is also a cool opening. It seems to move with a similar poesy. I like this style better than the standard prologue.

[Shep]

I try to open all my books with a poem that fits the workings of the book its self.

[Wesley Dingler]

I love it.
I may try it some day/some story.

[Cherrie Palmer]

To know ourselves then be brave enough to only ware our true emotions. Now that's daring.

[Shep]

Very true thats why were a mask that none can truly see.

[Cherrie Palmer]

I like how you are working it together