Fervor Facade...

Pull a face and point it
down the barrel of the lens
Show your teeth
but not your fangs
Speak the words
your handlers taught you
Placate the planet
with platitudes and pantomime

and listen to the divided masses
that alternately cheer and hiss
and watch them show
their true colors
in bland and washed-out
blacks and whites
while you hide your own
lack of color and character
behind fingers pointing
at the colorless image
behind an opposing facade
pointed like a mirror back
your way

Don't look anyone in the eye
to see through the windows
into the souls that are no longer there
Don't listen closely or speak honestly
to anyone other than yourself
and more importantly
DON'T DARE
try to see or hear or speak
of your true elusive self

as reality becomes more and more unreal
and authenticity seems endangered
if not extinct
don't show any courage
don't risk any of your own reality
Hide it behind the same facades
that you can find in everyone else
and everything they share
Don't be honestly flawed
Don't work on improving your self
SHAME others
DECRY everything
LIE
LIE
LIE
until fear and futility
overtake you
as everyone that ever pretended to know you
along with those foolishly believing your facade
will face you with fading fervor
feigning through their none-too-sad
goodbyes