False Face

Smiling beguiling

Dejected grace

Haunts the false face

When a saw can sing

To make a hangman swing

When a shark can grin

Make this crocodile cry

Whispered lies

And snide asides

Cover run and hide

Your lying eyes

That trick disguise

It slips and slides

On the other side

Your false face guise

Deceives the pain

To smile again

That familiar ring

Of a chagrin sting

My deadly butterfly

My sobbing crocodile

These expressions leave me cold

And this charade is oh so old

A no feature smear

Of a death skull leer

With a Judas kiss

Cover run and hide

In a catchpenny mist

Your lying eyes