How Many…
How many people are happy
How many wear a mask
How many have to make a smile
A constant daily task

How many wish like I do
That if they could only be
Someone else entirely
They’d be happy, they’d be free

A hundred different people
With a different mask of each
How many feel that happiness
Is always out of reach

How many of the people
That I see every day
Put on the mask because they should
But really feel this way

If only we could realise
We wear our masks to cope
Because we know a smile shared
Will always give us hope

Hope that one day the smile is real
And acceptance they can find
Hope that happiness is up ahead
And sadness is behind

We know that we should shed our masks
To join with all the rest
But we’ll never be quite brave enough
Till we feel we are our best

And therein lies the problem
As behind the mask we know
We’ll never feel like we’re the best
While we all feel so low

And so we go around and round
Never coming close to peace
An endless circle of pain and doubt
We know will never cease

How many people are happy
How many wear a mask
We’ll never know the truth of it
Because we never ask