Mirage
We peer as if behind delicate lace-work to soften
Need – weighted with a terrible tinge, puce maybe?
Whispering aches only heard by wall art
Behind cool darkened doors of solitude.
It appears in couched terms
Divulged in metaphor, spun in rhyme
Shrouded in lyrical prose; mirages no one sees but
All see, in this overcrowded desert of bodies.
Emperors all are we
Scribbling in our invisible clothes, startled
If spotted behind our woven illusion, when
A fellow wanderer drinks at our mirage to slake thirst
Relief echoes in vibrato, rapidly rushing
Shell of pretense cracked and shucked, into
The refuse bucket, delicate innards shimmer, anticipatory
And rush we, into shared weaknesses and frailty
-Need nestled against need.
~SMK
Inspiration: The life of writing.
The Impetuarian 
Hope you don’t mind me saying this but, I believe this is a beautiful and dark piece of work. I think I understand it. Quite brilliant.
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Thank you. While I’m generally a light-hearted person, I ‘see’ a lot of things. This was a reflection of myself, and others in the writing sphere, and what lies underneath many times. Never upset when being called brilliant 🙂
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