Tuesday, October 22, 2024

A portrait of Dorian Gray/ aug 20, 2012

  

I did not intend to spy on he

r or overhear all she said

 about the man whose story she wrote

 and how she intended to humiliate him

 with details of his questionable past

I just happened to be

 in the wrong place at the right time

 to hear her mocking him

 for thanking her for a story

that he seemed to see as positive

when she wanted to nail him to the cross

 girl talk upstairs

a mocking voice telling her colleagues

just how stupid this man was

 and I behind a filing cabinet by accident

 stunned at her cruelty

and alarmed about how possible it was

 she might talk about me as she did him

he too thick to pick up on the duplicity

 is this the real her

 I heard on this day

 the one that hides behind

 the pretty face and big eyes

who's thoughts were like

a Dorian Gray painting

much more ugly on the inside

than we might perceive from

her glorious exterior

 I didn't mean to spy on her

now I know I can't trust my attraction

since there is someone else inside of her


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