Wednesday, March 6, 2024

NOT MUCH TIME TODAY----

ALONE

 

(A POEM FROM 1995)

 

   So many know my name and yet so few

Know me; I'm more and less than what I seem

To be, called friend by many people who

Know me as I know night by chance moonbeam...

   Chameleon-like I change my psychic skin

Depending whom I'm with and what the day,

Unending fitting, never fitting in,

Amending how I look and what I say,

   Unclothed and mute, inside myself I know

My soul complete, its multiplicity

A whole; but outside actor-like I show

The role I choose, or you assign to me

     And as no one can know my entity,

      I know no one, but only simile

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