🔵 We Wear the Mask Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar - Summary Analysis We Wear the Mask Poem Paul Dunbar

We Wear the Mask Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar - Summary Analysis We Wear the Mask Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906)


We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

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