*Clear throat*

You! Yes, you are cordially invited to this year’s masquerade ball!
All you need is a mask! Come one, come all!
Drink, take pleasure in one another, be merry
Overindulge to your heart’s content!
Just leave your ugly face hidden under that mask
We don’t want to hear about your problems ladies and gents!
Ain’t nobody got time to try and dig to try and see you
So just get a nice mask that nobody can see through
There’s millions to choose from, any old thing will do
Don’t worry- we’re not trying that hard to see what’s true
[Short pause]
When you get to the ball leave your baggage in the car
Nobody wants to take the time to help you unload it
That just takes too much work, we’d rather let you be bogus
Go ahead, be fake, be a fraud, be a sham
Please, be anything but genuine
Cuz if you take off your mask well then, the proper thing would be to take off mine
A masquerade ball is awkward if some let their true faces shine….
Honestly, when we show our true faces that is real beauty
Sure, sometimes there’s some dirt, this life can leave us feeling dirty
But better a dirty face than plastic that’s fake….

Anyways *ahem* I apologize I digress
Make sure to put on your very best
All are expected to be dressed to the nines
So we can appropriately judge who can offer us enough to be worth our time
Appearance is everything! Our clothes, our faces, Instagrams, Facebooks, and Vines
Nobody wants to see the real you- they prefer the you you portray yourself to be online
The fuuun you
The one who, goes to all the parties and has all the sex, the one with the scandy pictures
There’s no law saying that in your pictures online you have to be appropriately dressed
Besides, everybody looks at porn these days anyways and that’s what people want to see
At least that’s what all the likes and comments online tell me….
People only look at you if you offer what they want you to be…
I can’t remember the last time someone actually saw me….

You know what, actually
I take back my invitation
Don’t go to the masquearade ball!
IT is a sham- not you!
It’s harder to truly see when all you have are your masks small circle eye-holes to look through
Maybe if we took them off we could gain a new clarity
See people for who they are rather than our flawed, lazy view of reality
Not to mention after a while in a mask it gets harder to breathe
There is a freshness in the air when we let the sun kiss our true faces
Taking off our masks can be terrifying but it can bring such relief
It can even open doors to new places…
Forget the masquerade ball, come one come all and take off your masks with me
Whatever it is we’re hiding together we can face it….
And finally, truly, see