figments

by Elisa Hinson - Aquarius

Draping curtains
           over mirrors
     and
 kissing fire upon
    the mouth

Scattering scars
       throughout these
  pages

a menagerie of truths


                        Don't say
                    I never asked you
                        To dance
                         With me

     Nor offered you
       more than a transcendental
               existence


Leaving snapshots
   of myself
As I reveled
   in your fiction

                     
           why ask for me only to leave again?


    if you have read me
           then you know
       that doors slam shut
    and reopen
        somewhere else
              
          and
     
    deception can be honored
          with truth


                 i wanted to learn
                     from you
                   

       i am just what
         i have been
        here

                       real and leaving
                           little in the
                       way of expectations
 
          aware of the beauty
             of anonymity


                      just done
                 with the fairy tales


       you know where to find me 
              (not here)


        and there will
      always be an
        opening door
      for that

         

 


                    

                
       
    











                       






         

         



Birth sign: Aquarius
Date created: 2009-05-02 13:06:02
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:47:12
Poem ID: 71980

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