My smile is a most excellent ruse
People see it as they desire
Changes expression in failing light
Casts shadows only I can see

A hollow hypocrisy of what is fake

Nothing after all is true
A smile is a frown
A frown is a smile
Expecting to be happy, we are all sad

A never ending story
Spoken in an endless loop
Everyone so loves the mask
To difficult to see the truth

Bleeding through the eyes
Cracks in the mirror

To maintain ones mask may declare

An independence
An island
The cog that will not spin

Cannot be seen when the backdrop is a watch