Thursday, July 11, 2024

Defying fate January 11, 2014

 

Do we really have a choice

 to be someone other than

what we are

what fate has decreed for us

maybe if I lived in seashells

the way she does

I could

only I can't and I suspect

she can't either

stuck in what she calls a morbid case

when it's possible for her to be

much more than that

so as she says we might never know

who she really is

falling in and out of love

 with what she professes to be

at the moment

we not quite able to catch

 a glimpse of the real self

when she scurries

from this seashell to that

judging her not by what she is

but what we think she is

 including me

since all she does is

like a puppet show

her fingers pulling strings

on characters we mistakenly

believe as her

want to know who she really is

 that ghost I see when I look

 long and deep into her eyes

and see the shape scurrying

 to escape detection

 or the bright light

 


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