Paper-thin characters come alive
unfettered imagination with drive
fecundates the womb of origins
ink delivers marvelous stories.
Fiction is fleshed out and thrives
from the germ of inspiration grows
a seedling increasing in size
to a giant tree whose foliage glows.
Out of its wooden bark
twin masks are carved
one puts on a toothless grin
the other tears to its chagrin.
Let the people beware,
of the masks' interior sheen
reflections that ensnare
many lives within a scene.
Talent is the requirement
otherwise the lights will blind
elocution, both loud and silent
always ethically inclined.
By donning a specific guise
mood aid created in the soul
pieces sewn to harmonise
together acting as a thole.
A fulcrum for rowing the vastness
of roguish oceanic tempests
gives to questions some answers
appease their deepest resentments.
With arguments stitched in patterns
as trustworthy speech as honesty
an imitative act without hypocrisy
emergent word made of tatters.
Meagre rhetoric without a character
lost and lacking in divine spices
opaque veneer of tuxedo and fur
oarless in an ordeal of identity crises.
