Salad # 14 : Camouflage

Camouflage (1984)

Characters
in a masquerade
Cowards
who hide behind masks
fashioned at
home
Facades
of blank indifference
harbouring appalling
complexities
Insecurity
Inadequacy
Inconfidence
Such things cannot be
revealed
since jeering laughter
is unpleasant to the
ear
No one bothers -
would you ?
Like a rusted guard-rail
that few care to
electroplate
these people slap on
another
coat of paint
and go about looking
bright
and new
and false
until it wears off