Here is what I tried to explain; Here is something that begins itself; Here is what you never stop saying; Here ends the guided tour. I watch you like a hypnotized child, Slack-jawed and heavy lidded and sorrowed. These are the words that I have chosen. I am half sick with familiarity And these words come haltingly and hard won. I want to love a stranger and I do. All of these lines are written to the boy with the colorless eyes and the smile I have never seen. You are everyone I have never known. I never want us to be close. Leave my ignorance and my fancies to themselves; Lock all the doors, And let the fairytale starve itself Until I become wise enough to know That I have invented what I think you are. But until then, Let me be sustained by my lies.
Reason for writing:
The poem explains itself - unrealistic passion for someone that I pass in the hall and never speak to.
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