wearing masks,
shrouding each mood …
… facades
gnawing at raw wounds.
wearing masks,
veiling each feeling …
… charades
snapping at open sores.
wearing masks,
mimicking the other …
… masked facades,
veiled charades,
shrouded screens,
masquerading as truth.
Truth lies in wait,
beneath the mask,
under the veil,
behind the screen,
through the shroud …
… truth lies in wait,
and waits …
waiting.
Scribbled Verse 
Is this coincidence?
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Be well and do good Brother Afzal.
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oh man. brilliant, brother David
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Thank YOU again, my friend, for choosing to share my scribble 🙏🏾.
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“Truth lies in wait under the mask” …great line!!
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thank you as always 🙏🏾
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some faces suit masks
but my laugh smile frown and cry
unseen since covid
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I hear you, my brother. I really hear you. 🤗hugs and love from this end 🌻
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An interesting thought Afzal – I reckon there’s been a bit of ‘quiet quitting’ of social masks here in Australia, i.e. a certain reluctance to put on the expected social face for every occasion. Any sense of such a change in South Africa?
Be well and do good my brother.
DD
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This is a very interesting thought, Don. It’s difficult to say here actually – hard to gauge really especially in a society still horribly disfigured by the legacy of Apartheid and people the vast majority of people still segregated into the townships and racially-demarcated areas which has made people more insular I think. So the “masks” may be slipping but I think this is more on a personal level rather than being a societal thing. Of course my being almost a completely reclusive hermit means I don’t really know 🙈 which then of course leads to the question as to how and why do I presume to know what’s the pulse societally. Contradictions aplenty, my brother at my end, but I’ll take crack open the convenient escape hatch and say that this scribble is a 100% personal take on a personal state of being – but then again what can really be 100% outside of mathematics and science – and even there, with the new hypotheses in quantum mechanics positing things like the “observer effect” just makes me realise that my typing-fingers are galloping ahead of my brain 🙈. Always a pleasure and always wonderful us sharing these and other thoughts, my brother 👍🏾. Do keep well and chat more soon. 🌿
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Yes, you quickly point out a major difference in the cultures of our countries. There is considerable freedom to express yourself here and it seems to me that covid restrictions added an extra degree of permission to say ‘no’ to social expectations put on one by others. Perhaps it’s a paradox of physical mask wearing. And maybe it’s mostly introverts who have taken this permission to heart. Sadly, as pandemic yields to endemic, I think they might revert to readily submitting to cultural expectations and to the demands of the bossier people in society.
This is of course the subjective speculation of an introvert not the conclusion of systematic observation.
Cheers
DD
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Yes! My brother Don, I didn’t think at all about how the Covid restrictions made it easier to say ‘no’ and now that you’ve mentioned it I can say I’ve been one of those who took as much advantage of just that – also being an introvert I echo your thoughts, my brother. Fortunately and all thanks to the framers of our new constitution we enjoy a very healthy freedom of expression in post-Apartheid South Africa and that has been akin to the floodgates being opened after far too long of being muzzled. Take care, brother D and warmest wishes as always from your mate Afzal on this side 🌿
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It was around 4am when I woke and I read this. Silly of me as the now long broken sleep is robbing me of a sensible reply!
But I had edited out a comment from my last response, expressing some optimism that the paradox of the masks would continue to undermine the strength of social masks and see more sincerity in social relations and simultaneously less prejudice. You may understand why I expunged that optimism.
Your comment on the Constitution is a sensible one. The Aussie Constitution apparently does not enshrine freedom of speech (I have not read it) and various of our freedoms are nibbled at in the fight-against-terror.
Anyway, enough now.
Kind regards
David W Don
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Hello my brother David, yes I do understand why you expunged that optimism expressed – and yes it’s been quite a time for “progressive” voices and forces around the world with the slow but quite frightening whittling away of hard-won freedoms the world over and yes the “war on terror” has given cynical governments to push through measures curtailing some of the very basic freedoms but then again the apparent veering to the right in counties all over the world – Italy has gone far-right and putin upping the ante with these sham referenda etc etc etc just gives one a chill – especially folks like us, my brother, who do remember the finger-on-the-nuclear-button days of the those old Cold War days. Down under at your end the recent victory of left-wing just reminds us of how in harsh times how the world veers to either extreme leaving folks like us squarely in the middle though more left-leaning 😆. Take care my brother DWD and love from my side – please do excuse my late response and probable further late and short responses from me 🙈. Unfortunately my dad who is 88 and suffering with Alzheimers is going through a particularly rough patch. I do hope that you are keeping well, my brother and that all those dear to you are also in good health and staying safe. Cheers mate, from Joburg 🌻
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Not good, Alzheimer’s. I do hope your father has good days ahead of him. The best we can do, from my experience, is to respond to him in ways that help to maintain his dignity.
Thank you for writing about his life too, for honouring him.
Kind regards, brother Afzal.
DD
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Thank you, brother David 🙏🏾. Yes my dear brother, the best we can do is always keep in mind that this awful illness is so insidious and that we have to respond to him, as you say, in ways that maintain his dignity. Thank you very much indeed, my brother. Your kindness, warmth, and brotherliness is felt deeply. Be well and wishing you and all those dear to you health and peace and that ever elusive filament we call “happiness” – a generic term if ever there was one and I’m sure I’ll never understand what it is! Cheers mate!
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