Actors Wear a Special Mask

Music: Forgive Me.
By Damiano Baldoni.
Performed by Damiano Baldoni at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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Actors wear a special mask:
One that's most revealing.
When they pretend they're someone else
They hang themselves to dry.

The tears and screams they've made their task
Leave nothing for concealing.
Each wound must bleed again, or else
The audience won't cry.

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