Hail To Small Details

by J James - Pisces

fluorescent stars stare at me, 
from a wall above me...
it's a ceiling I guess, 
but I'm never one much for detail.
We fail sometimes at being ourselves
we delve into other people's closets
for inside disguises that fit
one size too small...
What a tall order it must be.
To be what we are and celebrate it
like we do Happy New Years.
Fears of eyes turning away at my glance,
advances toward the door to avoid
the burden of me and the trespass
of their eyes and memories
with my awful me...
In between, you celebrate someone
who holds you over until
the real me arrives...
I hide like a fugitive in the woods
with cuffs around my feet.
Slowly but surely you catch up to me
and clean my wounds
with a tender touch.
I clutch to you like
a thirsty mosquito to flesh
and drain your discomfort just the same.
The blame for it though lies in
the almost me for not arriving in time
to warn you of a me
still reeling from the loss of others
that i thought completed me...
when you were the only thing
missing all along.
Hail to small details.

Reason for writing:

    dont remember writing this one but figured i had to add it    

Birth sign: Pisces
Date created: 2006-03-16 23:16:54
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:59
Poem ID: 71264

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