Views in Verse on 'transparency'

They say 'what you see is what you get' but can we believe even half of 'what we hear'?

Masking

So, you’ve asked for my point of view…?
But how can I portray…
My real thoughts to you, on any given day?
I grant you have an expectation
That you will seek an affirmation
But is it my considered view that you seek anyway’?

Masking brings with it a sense of the obtuse
In that what we opt to show
Is not even close to what we know
While communication so abused
And with masks we lamely choose
Will only stymie best intent and tamper with the flow

While the quest for desired relationships
Will lack a certain candor
Then will blunder on in search of something even grander.
Given, an openness unresolved
Between the parties here involved,
The dialogue shared can hope to be at best just jolly banter.

Conversely, masks may add a little something:
For the young …the impressible
Indeed, to express the the words of the inexpressible
Perhaps, to convey some feigned interest
Or bring meaning, to the witless
Or allow gallant outliers, to rise to the inaccessible

From my desktop Grahame J Flynn Views in Verse