Me, Myself and Unseen

"Nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask" - Bane, The Dark Knight Rises

Not even I cared that much before I put on the mask,
before the visage of Viddax was adopted
before the superego cloak
and shield against reality
the cover and vizard
that disguised my insecurity and emptiness.

Before such times
dreams were less than dreams:
hope without direction
merely yearning
with no aim
only my despair
before this bon ami
with who I could dream
if not live the dream.

In truth I have many masks,
a moustache in real life
- well am muttonstache in the making
to resemble the Victorian ideals
yet looks more like a 21st Century fundamentalist,
matched with my passive face
and deep brown Indian eyes
with their intense deep stare
have a habit of forming a mask
and making a mockery of other people's insight,
or at least making them turn away before I do.

Whereas the visage of Viddax is meant to be the opposite:
friendly and welcoming
without nation or race
a warm unthreatening face;
though that too is not so,
add the self declared title 'lord'
and it becomes imperious, haughty, pompous

but at least that's something
beyond the yawning void beneath.

I may have chosen the mask,
but the mask dictates behaviour
ever looking to improve me
to make the being I dreamed of
as behind every good mask
is a good ego pulling faces.

So it is true that no one cared until I put on the mask,
not even me particularly
but to take it off all you have to do is ask
just wait until you see us together.