Masks

This is a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar!

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

Surprises

You were going to surprise me on my birthday
Yeah I read the comment you wrote
On my friends blog
Asking when my birthday was!

Well the day has been and gone
And in our friendship
We've moved on
But still I want you to know
I like surprises!

So surprise me
any day of the week
any month, or any year
It can just be a phone call
Telling me that you are here!
I really don't mind surprises
Especially from you
It's nice to know you're remembering me
While I'm remembering you

It seems that it's always me
Giving you a call
Or writing you an email
Or bothering you at all
I really don't mind that
It's no hardship for me
But still it's nice to know you care
And are thinking still of me!

So when you're old and in your 30's
Just remember you've a friend
Who lives half way around the world
And drives you round the bend
But who always likes to remember
That sometimes you need a call
to be reminded that you're cared
about!
From me to you - that's all

Bouncy

I feel so bouncy
and flouncy
I've got that song of Angel's in my brain
I'm renting
I'm venting
A musical is making me go insane

La vie boheme
It's just flying through my brain
A musical
the music is just flowing through my veins

The rhythm
exciting
inviting
I want to beat it out
on drums of steel
My head
pounding
rebounding
I've got to get this musical appealed

La vie boheme!!

You're a boy and I'm a girl

You're a boy, and I'm a girl
And I don't know what to say to you
We don't date
We don't hate
We're just friends
and I don't know how to do this!

I read a book
I took a look
and how I'm supposed to be with guys I love
But it's not the same
with you & I
We're just friends
Unless I got it wrong again

I wish I knew
what to say
when you don't talk anymore!
Is it just me
Or something else
I'm such a girl
with no success!

Before we met,
I knew just how, I should be with you
I bit of this, a hint of that
It was all so playful!
But now we've seen
It was like a dream
But I got over that
You're still the same
We're still both annoying brats

Is it just me
the paranoia of a female mind
Are we no more
friends of a different kind
I wish I knew
how to talk to you again
Are you afraid
that my feelings have changed.

So let's be clear
At least in poetry and song
I'm just your friend
that's all I've ever wanted all along!
We may have touched
a different part of each other's souls
But that don't mean
that I don't want you in my life anymore!