we pull on a mask
or put on the face
true identity, you ask?
hidden without trace
surgery can reduce
or augment one’s chest
we wax, tan, and mousse
to look (expensive) best
switch your gender
buy youth extender
monied culture of pretender
ch-ch-ch-changelings!
Join De at dVerse…for a change
a poem in my pocket 
Jan 19, 2019 @ 15:41:22
Oh yes… we can do it all … but we need more than a little change to do it.
Jan 19, 2019 @ 22:34:01
😉
Jan 16, 2019 @ 07:45:45
So much truth in this quadrille, Lynn ❤️ Exquisitely drawn 🙂
Jan 17, 2019 @ 20:56:15
Thank you, Sanaa!
Jan 15, 2019 @ 17:54:52
Those ending lines pack a punch. We can mask a lot of changes in our body but time eventually catches up.
Jan 15, 2019 @ 20:21:43
Yes, we must accept the marks of time and hopefully improve our inner self!
Jan 15, 2019 @ 13:54:05
Hehe.. my FriEnd Lynn StARTinG
Off NoW on dVersE oN A WiNTeR
SPRinG True Devils in DeTaLES
Too for without Masks No
Theater No Poetry
No Art
Nor the
Ever changing
Flesh and Blood
We All wear oF
God ALWaYS The
Most Beautiful Changing
FLoWeR aS EveN LiGHT
Comes
From
DiViNE
FeMiNiNE
DaRK FaLLiNG
Up to Love Eve’s LiGHT
SeeD ADam’son
As LiFE
Comes
From Crucible
Fire Death Resurrection
Of Sentient Standing
STaR
DusT Us
Uploading
Souls of Poetry
Now True What
Changelings We Continue
To
Be
i AM..:)
Jan 15, 2019 @ 20:25:42
I like the ideas of wearing image of God and uploading souls of poetry…thanks for your artful comment, Fred!
Jan 15, 2019 @ 20:27:29
SMiLes.. ALWays
My Pleasure..
Thanks Lynn
For the
Inspiration..:)
Jan 15, 2019 @ 20:39:29
Jan 15, 2019 @ 12:30:06
Sadly, we can change the exterior in all these ways, but wherever we go there we are! Good write.
Jan 15, 2019 @ 20:26:15
So true…thanks!
Jan 15, 2019 @ 10:30:08
So clever, Lynn! That last line cracked me up. Ain’t it the truth.
Jan 15, 2019 @ 10:43:42
Glad you enjoyed it, De…thanks for the prompt!
Jan 15, 2019 @ 05:39:47
Nice line: “monied culture of pretender”
Jan 15, 2019 @ 06:57:37
Thanks, Frank. We can afford to change…
Jan 14, 2019 @ 22:21:47
I stopped coloring my hair 10 years ago when my hair whent white from end to end. But it seems we do everything to appear young and beautiful, don’t we?
Jan 15, 2019 @ 06:58:21
Yes, is that age-ism?
Jan 14, 2019 @ 21:56:04
to look (expensive) best. I color my hair – it isn’t cheap – I look forward to the day when my grey looks good and I can have a full head of silver.
But the beginning line reminds me that most of us conform (think public school days…) and we lose our confidence. That’s a mask I wish we never learned to wear.
Jan 14, 2019 @ 22:01:10
Yes, I stopped coloring my hair 6 months ago…and I think I’m alright with “highlights” of silver!
Jan 14, 2019 @ 21:22:48
It’s the modern world! Yeah, people change all right.