The Answer

What does a Mask know of love? What does he know of the emotion so pristine that even I shudder at the mere thought of falling in love again? I shudder for I know that love is all pervasive, it takes over your life in a way not even a success laden mask can. It shakes your entire being and makes you an all together different man – a man they say is in love.

Oh, how the lines vanish when you are in love!

The line between sanity and insanity; between how much of yourself you wish to keep and how much you want to give up and the line between dreams and reality. Are you ready to give up your manipulative, scheming mind as a price for one successful lustful reverie with the face that you speak of? Will you embrace the innocent face and surrender your soul to unite with her in the world that she exists in?

If you answer in yes, then indeed, the Mask can fall in love.

But here is the bitter truth, the Mask is forever a Mask, it does not exist outside a make believe world of faked happiness and unfulfilled desires. A Mask is always an after thought, never an unbridled surrender to heart felt wishes; a Mask is born to a lie, love is the eternal truth. So my dear Mask, fall in love if you must, but you can not love; for you are incapable of loving back. Masks serve to survive and not to spread happiness and that is the rationale of your existence. At some point in your life, you must betray the innocence to keep the Mask alive.

I fear for the innocent face though, for after the Mask is done with loving her and the ground beneath her tender feet turns in to a deathly marshland, the innocence would have died and yet another beast would be born; a beast who herself will wear the Masks that I now wear and the circle of life would continue uninterrupted.

I do not write destinies, least of all your destiny Mask, but I do think of the day when all innocence is gone from our lives! Think of the day when all our Masks have usurped all the innocent faces and what we are left with is a hideous congregation of single faceted Masks. The Masks who lie, cheat and deceive; but alas, there is no one left to lie to, to deceive and to cheat!

Such will be the state of the world where Masks fall in love and thus we will all exist in a void world free of love, happiness and dreams.

The Face