42. The great deception
We hide ourselves in art
to mask our naked souls
that stand not getting hurt
by human common baseness
so predominant among the multitude
from which we separate in horror
to protect the frail vulnerability of our ideals
that all too easily gets sullied
and pulled down in dirt by envy
and the ignorance and shortcomings
of lack of understanding
that so dominates the world,
society and humankind
in constant and atrocious tragedy.
So we protect ourselves in masks
and hide ourselves in art
to do our best to make a good performance
just to spite vulgarity and commonness
and thus make show and play
to hide reality from view
and make believe there is a better world
if nowhere else at least inside ourselves,
if only we could be convincing
in the art of this deception,
which is all the world's constructiveness.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-08-26 at 14:01
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