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"Smile for the camera say cheese!"

Yes me behind the camera encouraging my subjects to smile,
To just play pretend for that moment, so that pieces of their souls that
The camera catches are happy ones. Hmmm a pharsard.

Hmmm I think to myself

I dare ask them for such, when I myself walk around with
My mask and my shield on a daily basis.

Who am I? I ask myself
What image of myself and which part of my soul
Am I having on display today at the gallery called LIFE?

Forever trying to hide the scars,
Forever avoiding voltures and snakes
Make-up is a handy accessory , a new face
Emerges within seconds, and the old one is hidden underneath.

Hanging around with people that add no value to ones existence.
Laughing at jokes that aren't funny, yes that's the face one
Has to wear sometimes wear to get by.

Always looking to tomorrow with great anxiety and hope.

Dream of tomorrow, plan for tomorrow, that rainy day they say.
Time waits for no man, you gotta have assets , you gotta have money.

Work! Work! Work!

They say! Over and over again!!!!

Relax I say, take off the make up, pull up the mirror,
Look at yourself!

Don't think of tomorrow, focus on now,

Are you happy, is this face the face that makes you happy?
Does it define you ? Who are you?

These people you call friends... Do you like them?
Do you care enough about them and their lives?
Do they like you?
Do they care enough about you?

Think , I say, revisit, change.

Your family , do you love them,
And ask yourself, what wouldn't you do for family?
What are you adding into their lives? Or do you always just take?

Do they love you, do they care?

"Smile look into the camera and say cheese!"