Rhosalyn Williams · Jun 17, 2012
Act II

My shirt is loose and isn’t mine.
I  lie on tile, head at ground, eyes above me, looking nowhere
and I am set wide from myself,
legs broken into proportions that display my figure as masculine.

The words were written there between us in soft gestures and knowing eyes;
Eyes, that didn’t know well enough.
Your face is ghost to mind; present behind my hands and my words, always.
Unless I stand near to the real you, where my smile is the ghost with  laughter and motions that don’t reflect longing.

 
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