The ‘L’ Word

Me, myself, I

I, myself, me

I did this I did that I went here I went there

Well I went –

Oh, did you? Then I met X and I met Y and we chilled.

I am my world and my world is me

My fam, my friends

All my warm people

My fortress of love.

I stare through the slits at you

Over my moat

But I don’t see you

Don’t know you

Don’t want to know you.

You is me.

Me, here, asking how are you?

Always how are you?

Oh did you? That’s great!

Oh have you? That’s nice.

Oh will you? That’s cool.

Unseen. 

No walls, no moat

Just pain, inside

Aching weight

Rain that won’t fall

Can’t fall

Illegal emotion.

But I can’t chide away

The L word

Always here

Deep inside

The shame of it

The pain of it

The truth of it

Loneliness

Outside your fortress.

 

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