# @desireetims on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CZhsba4PfAz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/7764233-desireetims-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-02-03T19:13:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Desiree Tims (@desireetims) — https://gondola.cc/desireetims

## Caption

Dayton, Ohio’s very own Paul L. Dunbar in his poetic words that is unfortunately still timely today. We Wear The Mask. #BHM22 

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while

  We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,

  We wear the mask!

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