Happy
Mask of happiness
Held carefully against all that
Takes place
Fabricated to hide sorrows from
The rest of the world
Or from
Oneself

Anger
Anger
Sometimes cool and calculating
Or furious and irrational
A carefully formulated mask
To keep people away
To stay safe within
Walls built around a
Scarred heart
To hide from the world
To prevent getting to close to
Anyone

Cynicism 
Mask of disillusionment
To cover the
Bitterness
Broken hopes
Ended dreams
Hiding all the pain
And hurt
Of years gone by

Crazy
Thoughts tangles amidst
The winding paths of
An irrational mind
Unreasoning insanity
Concealing comprehension
From threatening malevolence
Or in prevention of contemptuous mockery
A mask for the world
Refusal to accept the grave plights of
Humanity

Sad
Facade of sorrow
Designed for manipulation
Seemingly despondent but
In reality carefully
Calculated
To deceive others and win
Compassion
In this bustling world
Which rarely spares a
Moment
For anyone but its
Most significant
Inhabitants

People hiding behind masks
for their own purposes
and reasons
But eventually
they will become the mask
Whatever the mask may be
a person cannot be something
they are not without
becoming
what they are pretending to be