Role Play


Society’s contemporary stage,
Concealed characters,
Performing numerous life roles,
Jumbled parts for countless scenes,
Do we, life’s thespians, secreting behind our assumed masks encourage audience inspection?
Provision a backstage pass to access our overprotected ego’s sanctum?
Can we even distinguish ourselves from our alias’s confusing disguises?
Writers of own scripts?
Who are we truly?

— Philip Wood

Venice silver masks