who are you?

Everyone is obliged to display whatever they think is fit for public consumption
Everyone has a side to be seen and a side to be veiled
This decision depends on the people with whom they associate at whatever point in time
What can they handle …what they can’t
What do they require?
What do they desire?
What do they petition?
What do they indulge?
Is it legal to express?
Is it politically or socially correct?
Is their ability to be heard dependent on their social and financial standing?
Or on their religious persuasion?
Is it bound by race, ethics or prejudice?
Does it have anything to do with a sense, albeit, a perceived sense of justice?
When one speaks… what is heard?
How is it interpreted?
Why is it interpreted?
Why is its interpretation interrupted?
What’s with the compulsion to dissect and decipher?
Is it because everyone has the presence of mind to succor some measure of paranoia?
Knowing that the apparent is not as it appears…
No one really knows the answers,
No one really knows the reasons,
Is there anyone who really cares?
Is there anyone willing to run the risk?
The world is one big stage where actors and actresses bid to perfect their art of survival…
They all take a chance…
Hoping that as they are masked and costumed…
The curtains do not go up unexpectedly or the cameras do not roll before they are ready for action and their attempt to be in control…
To be believed,
Their attempt to earn their keep is seen for what it really is…
A farce, a charade…
And each, a chameleon, dictated to and scripted by time, place, situation, station and relations