day 14. change

v5 

What has changed? 

Only the increased 

compartmentalisation of the face. 

I wait for the moment my colleagues take a sip of water, for then that mask must come down, and I get a sense of who they really are.

As much pleasure as I derive from studying the shape of one's eyes, the arch of their eyebrows, I've come to realise a person's nose and mouth contribute much to one's face. 

For instance now, one cannot quite tell

if a comment has made someone's day or hurt them like hell. 

Since not all smiles have to reach the eyes, 

beneath this mask I need not re-arrange my lips.

It's an art, to divorce one from the other

in saying what we want to say,

one I have hopes of mastering every day. 

v4 

What has changed? 

Only the increased 

compartmentalisation of the face. 

I wait for the moment my colleagues take a sip of water, for then that mask must come down, and I get a sense of who they really are.

As much pleasure as I derive from studying the shape of one's eyes, the arch of their eyebrows, I've come to realise a person's nose and mouth contribute much to one's face. 

Since not all smiles have to reach the eyes, 

beneath this mask I need not re-arrange my lips.

It's an art, to divorce one from the other

in saying what we want to say,

one I have hopes of mastering every day. 

v3

What has changed? 

Only the increased 

compartmentalisation of the face. 

I wait for the moment my colleagues take a sip of water, for then that mask must come down, and I get a sense of who they really are.

As much pleasure as I derive from studying the shape of one's eyes, the arch of their eyebrows, I've come to realise a person's nose and mouth contribute much to one's face. 

for instance now, one cannot quite tell, 

if a comment has made someone's day or hurt them like hell

since not all smiles have to reach the eyes, 

I can happily frown behind that mask, 

it's an art, to divorce expressions from eyes and lips

one I hope to master every day. 

I'm trying to master the art of differentiating what the shape of the  mouth and the flare of the nostrils and they eyes convey.

if I really wanna say I'm happy 

I have to smile so wide the smile reaches the eyes. 

I need not always smile

not all smiles reach the eyes

v2

What has changed? 

Only the increased 

compartmentalisation of the face. 

I wait for the moment my colleagues take a sip of water, for then that mask must come down, and I get a sense of who they really are.

As much pleasure as I derive from studying the shape of one's eyes, the arch of their eyebrows, I've come to realise a person's nose and mouth contribute much to one's face. 

sometimes when someone walks towards me, I can't always tell who they are,  just based on their eyes peering over the wall of their masks. 

What has changed? the increased compartmentalisation of the face

I wait for the moment my colleagues take a sip of water, 

for then that mask must come down,

and I get a sense of who they really are.

As much pleasure as I derive from studying the shape of one's eyes, the arch of their eyebrows, I've come to.realise, a person's nose and mouth contribute much to one's face. 

but nowadays I have more leisure to just examine those eyes I suppose, the shapes, the arch of the eyebrows above them,