Closets

Jester's face
carved in chameleon caricatures
kept in panoply of poses,
stored inside the cesspool confessional
where conscience treads water.

Nodding verbiage
prevents potentate's strings
from strangling,
never revealing
one's true portrait.

Always hidden
beneath sanguine shroud
so rage's textures
remains visible
only on fantasia's canvas.

Possibility's cocoon
turning crypt
epitaph diary,
a work of fiction.