From The Lab

Masked By A Hologram

The light plays off
of the facets,
carved long ago
by the wisest of wise.
Yet a select few
that build up walls
of false smiles and
a kindness not there
wrongly reflect
their true desperation's,
loves, hopes, desires,
hatreds, and hidden fears,
with purposeful motions
thrown to conceal
like sleight of hand
of the mind and soul,
in a world devised
from blueprints that
were drafted for
a person no longer there,
for here there are only
shades and masks.