Up Here

January 28, 2015




No...
I didn't see that...
Well... I glanced...
And looked away...
For shame...
From shame...
Or... just because...
Just because it isn't...
Isn't true...
I mean...
People betray themselves...
And... betray others...
Not fully conscious of it...
Not realizing... it...
And if they did fully realize...
They would be shamed...
And so... I don't really look...
I don't really see...
I don't make a note of your nakedness...
I don't register your shame...
Because...
You will find your way...
If I don't engrave you in stone...
If I resist judgment... resist... judgment...
If I keep distant...

I didn't really see them...
The injustices...
The betrayals...
The nightmare of your own blindnesses...

I was... up here.




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