Tuesday, November 5, 2024

She knows the game aug 27, 2012

 

she always seeks to find herself

 but never does

perpetually hurt by those

who claim to love her

yet she won't stop

she has as her old poem claims

When it works  love is fantastic

yet love is not all there is

the game she needs to play

 if only to survive

it is a phase that passes

 she is a player as well as a lover

sometimes confuses the two

buying the farm for 5 years

a kind of death

even when she believed

she was getting ahead

now cooped up again

 here there everywhere

secret plots that scare her

 each morning

 when she knows it doesn't

pan out into anything

and she needs to lock the doors

to her home her heart to her head

to keep it all from spilling out

perhaps more terrifying

other stuff from seeping in

how to get out without getting caught

how to find her dreams

without selling her soul

how to keep from revealing herself

 to all those people even

 when she aches down deep

 for someone to know her

 her real  Al Sullivan's poetry
email to Al Sullivan

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