People  in painted faces

        living in quiet repression

        sharing a silent depression

unspeakable

        Insufferable.

Chained to their false personas by fear

        playing pretend, always losing the game

Reality intervenes

And just as soon it slips away

    effervescence

        a dark fantasy  in with all the

        characters are frauds.

The world is a stage

        the audience knows all the secrets

        the actors think they hide so well