facade

we meet people,everyday, see,touch,hear,hug, speak,glare,evaluate,weigh them, in scales- cost benefit analysis in calculations of relationships, the business of liking people, collaterals submitted in friendships, laughing at unfunny jokes, tolerating idiotic whims, restraining rebellion, we smother ourselves,bit by bit, the real submerged, in a sea of the ersatz, we live on,brick by brick, cementing facades.