I prefer to write in

Anonymity

The freedom it entails

Simply to be an pseudonym

Represented by a single word

The potential to be

Variable

Alpha or Omega

Female or male

A horizon

To express uninhibited

Faceless in a crowd

Existing only as a brief shout.

It is shameless almost

In its vanity,

To be cloaked

In a cultivated air

Seemingly mysterious,

This stranger not to be known,

To those who find themselves foreign

In this province of jeweled feigns and veils

Words echoing from the mask

Tribal in their reverberations

Pounding in their march

Refusing to be

Left unspoken.