Paz suggested the world is composed of masked actors alluding to the past...

making the past alive and the world a stage.

my mask my role is as much made for me as by me

        pull it off and find nothing

        I am my mask and it is me.

but maybe I can dissolve it, blur it, soften it, reduce its dramatic features

         become an extra

                walk off stage

return to a world outside of history. commune with the neglected clouds, stones, twigs, grasses, and trees

the birds, the water, the lizards, the earth;

yes

I can forget my role and live