Venetian mask

If we don't keep the mask on during the day, the face is naked, vulnerable to the grime and often the stones that get thrown around. So, when the day closes it's eye, we seek to take it off... But sometimes, when the day refuses to end, and the masks have to remain on, I think we end up stifling something. Something, that does not raise it's voice immediately, but in time.

I think this is an epidemic in our times. Days grow longer with each passing moment. And when people wear their masks at all times, their identities evaporate. And only the mask remains.