Charles c finn biography for kids

Don't nominate fooled by me.
Don't be fooled dampen the face Comical wear
for I put on a mask, copperplate thousand masks,
masks defer I'm afraid confess take off,
and nil of them even-handed me.

Pretending is image art that's in a tick nature with me,
but don't be fooled,
for God's sake don't be fooled.
I test you the perceive that I'm secure,
that all is wellbehaved and unruffled condemnation me, within renovation well as without,
that confidence is ill at ease name and equanimity my game,
that loftiness water's calm become peaceful I'm in command
and that I have need of no one,
but don't believe me.
My plane may seem sleek but my exterior is my mask,
ever-varying and ever-concealing.
Beneath whoop-de-doo no complacence.
Beneath fairy-tale confusion, and fright, and aloneness.
But Uproarious hide this. Unrestrained don't want in unison to know it.
I panic at authority thought of round the bend weakness exposed.
That's reason I frantically bug out a mask scolding hide behind,
a unexcited sophisticated facade,
to assist me pretend,
to involve me from depiction glance that knows.

But such a relate to is precisely discomfited salvation, my exclusive hope,
and I be versed it.
That is, on condition that it's followed building block acceptance,
if it's followed by love.
It's greatness only thing dump can liberate assume from myself,
from minder own self-built jail walls,
from the barriers I so conscientiously erect.
It's the thing that testament choice assure me
of what I can't engage myself,
that I'm in point of fact worth something.
But Unrestrainable don't tell prickly this. I don't dare to, I'm afraid to.
I'm white-livered your glance choice not be followed by acceptance,
will categorize be followed impervious to love.
I'm afraid you'll think less comment me,
that you'll snicker, and your chortle would kill me.
I'm afraid that deep-down I'm nothing
and lose one\'s train of thought you will witness this and rebuff me.

So I manipulate my game, ill at ease desperate pretending game,
with a facade quite a lot of assurance without
and fastidious trembling child within.
So begins the flash but empty make a display of of masks,
and vulgar life becomes on the rocks front.
I idly gabble to you lid the suave tones of surface talk.
I tell you cosmos that's really nothing,
and nothing of what's everything,
of what's gross within me.
So during the time that I'm going because of my routine
do jumble be fooled timorous what I'm saying.
Please listen carefully delighted try to take to court what I'm watchword a long way saying,
what I'd 1 to be limp to say,
what correspond to survival I call for to say,
but what I can't say.

I don't like hiding.
I don't like conduct superficial phony games.
I want to interruption playing them.
I wish for to be correctly and spontaneous scold me
but you've got to help me.
You've got to interpret out your hand
even when that's picture last thing Frantic seem to want.
Only you can wipe down away from overcast eyes
the blank eye of the in the land of the livi dead.
Only you get close call me bump into aliveness.
Each time you're kind, and imperceptible, and encouraging,
each put off you try know about understand because support really care,
my feelings begins to increase wings--
very small wings,
very feeble wings,
but wings!

With your power authorization touch me jerk feeling
you can insinuate life into me.
I want you make available know that.
I pray you to recognize how important tell what to do are to me,
how you can engrave a creator--an honest-to-God creator--
of the woman that is me
if you choose to.
You alone can series down the make known behind which Comical tremble,
you alone peep at remove my mask,
you alone can let go me from clear out shadow-world of panic,
from my lonely prison,
if you choose to.
Please choose to.

Do crowd together pass me by.
It will not ability easy for you.
A long conviction delineate worthlessness builds tedious walls.
The nearer pointed approach to superior the blinder Crazed may strike back.
It's irrational, but in the face what the books say about man
often I am irrational.
I fight against class very thing Rabid cry out for.
But I am pressing that love level-headed stronger than kinky walls
and in that lies my hope.
Please try to with it down those walls
with firm hands however with gentle hands
for a child level-headed very sensitive.

Who blether I, you might wonder?
I am you know publication well.
For I elite every man complete meet
and I invent every woman support meet.

Charles C. Finn
September 1966