Foundation
The mask I wear
sometimes
more often than not of late.
Slippery yet drying
it clings to me
like I cling to the idea
of youth
lingering on inside
my sun-damaged face.
Foundation
is a base layer
a building block
for the other visual lies
I present to the world
or tell myself.
Foundation
shouldn’t just come from a bottle
or stick
or revolutionary solid block.
Foundation
is what you’re made of
not what you make-up.
