The Mask of Your Man
by Antoinette Kopperfield — Read all 219 poems by Antoinette Kopperfield
Friday, November 21, 2003
Take off your mask
and reveal your true self to me!
Have you forgotten?
That I am a newly blossomed flower
With petals which cannot stand upright
Against the wind
Must you be like all the rest?
As you tatter and soil
The innermost seeds-
Within my soul
A time will come
when you will wither
and be at my mercy!
Though I shall never forget
the stain on your hands
or the crack of your deceiving smile-
as you mask yourself
to set forth-another day