By not*about*you
Date: 2007 Feb 11
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[[2007.02.11.13.48.1181]]

Truth

Truth be told
I am not the one
you are thinking about.
Truth be told
I don't write so many
words for you.
It is for your ghost,
for your memory,
i may tease and i may
bury all my fears
in words, but don't
take to heart
the puzzle of worlds.
You are free to love
whom you want.
You are free to be
whom you want.
Perhaps I shed
too many clothes
so that in my nudity
you are at a loss
for any words.
It is a naked desire
i have, free of labels,
free of mesmerizing
eyes to hold. I may
confuse you creature
of another mold, but
it is not my intention
to abuse you. How
can you have a right
to exist, but not I?
How can you have a right
to insist, but not I?
How can you have a right
to tear apart my very
world in every goodbye,
but not I?
Your appetite for love
is transfixed on the words
of baked cakes. You see
how you over react and
wandering about, close
your eyes to ramblings
that have absolutely
nothing to do with you?
I did it to show you
since your eyes are so
often closed, to show
you the points of confusion,
to bring to the table the
plates and forks, so that
you may delight and satisy
that you are in control
of your world.  I provided
another answer without
any meaning just to
remind you of him, of her
of them and that. All of whom
are ghosts.  I don't care
if it's fruit cake, carrot
cake, apple or rasberry.
I don't care about those
words. I care to remind
you where we went wrong
long ago. I accussed you
because of the rejection,
yes, like a child i was.
And in my creations, I
return to old words.
Where no answers are given
I make my own. And even
if there is another,
it's not my own desire
to come between your
secret style. It never
was my desire to bring
you into a tug of war.
It has been your inability
to express clearly
anything, directly.
It has been your inability
to acknowledge my heart
without the mocking masked
mirror of love. I know
what will never be. I have
always known, did you think
that little of me? But
I have grown to also know
your secret desire for me,
and all i want is an
explanation for the denials
the paradox, the lies.