Behind the Mask

By W.G. Murray

This book of poetry was written during the Pandemic of COVID-19, as the frost fell on the old growth trees of Clayoquot Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island Canada in the latter part of 2020. It was Pandemia. Under emergency government direction, we stayed inside in confusion with a steady diet of fear. As an antidote to the uncertainty, this book provides a remedy in thought and perception through a different kind of inspired poetry. Through years of confusion and endless wondering about the nature and purpose of life, we come full circle to recall our true nature. That is the experience of life. Whether we realize it or not, we are at one with our creator. Not of the body but of the spirit. We were created by a loving God, and now, more than ever, it is time to trust Him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665509190

W.G. Murray

w.g. murray spent her formative years in a small fishing community on an island on the East Coast of Canada. She was born in 1966 as number 8 of 10 children of an Irish Catholic family. Her father fished the sea and harvested from the land and sang her to sleep at night with songs of the country where his people were from, County Kerry on the Southwest coast of Ireland. In an old house on the banks of the Atlantic Ocean, she learned how to love, and she slept at night to the pull of the sea. She received her education throughout Canada in Law and Politics. w.g. murray lives in Oxford Mills Ontario.

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This book was written for

my children

Allison, Leah and Ronan

So you will know

Love brought you here

and

Love will take you home.

Remember Love….

Contents

Madness

Bread and Circuses

Disorder

A Jail of Choice

The Light of the World

Behind the Mask

The Mind’s Return

Life’s Meaning

The Only Certainty

Insanity

Confusion

Random Thoughts

Dysfunction

Insufficient

Irrational

Error

Suffering

Sabotage

Montreal on time…

The Mask of Self

The Pandemia

What ensued?

The Resistant Heart

Little One

Who am I?

Fear

Thought Police

Nothing Matters

The Incarceration of Belief

Alive

Helpless

The Imprisoned Forgotten

Fear

Change of Mind

The Fight

The Night

The Cross

The Notebooks

The Circle Game

Freedom

Death of Illusion

Acceptance

Perfection

Redemption

The Christ Before Me

You.

The Unseen

Pyramid

All there is

Kindness

Turn from it

The Christ in Me

Salvation

Of My Life

The Word After

Meditation

Madness

It moved in like madness

From the East.

Only God knows why.

The telescreen said

"Be scared

Stay inside

Where death and disease

Will not find you."

The words are said

So, they must be true

Within the guilt, conspiracy, and blame

The world stopped

And, like sheep, we followed each other

Into the pit of madness.