VERSE | LITTLE SECRETS

I sought you out, you seek I did 
Your sort I ardently sought out
In movies on my Netflix screen
Your type I read in pages typed
And bound in pale lilac string
Lying deep beneath secret things
Amid beloved, unpublished things
Your form I conjured in my dreams
From lovely, daytime fantasies
You lived in my gleaming realm
Of poignant impossibilities
Your mold I formed in my head
Gently the mould spread and spread
Amid beautiful, decaying things
Covered in gossamery what-ifs
In golden morns and velvet nights
I looked for you, I sought you out

Until yesterday

When I saw you clear as day
You looked through me and then away
The likes of me you didn’t like
You sought a whole new other sort
I was no part of your reality
But I looked and looked silently
Seek you still, I do sometimes
I still urge for your bewitching kind
But now doubts riddle that enterprise
Few are the days when I look for you
Fret-free, with stars in my eyes
Those days are still the most sublime
But sublimity is not for me
Its glittering garb is too profound
Peace is now what I seek out
Still, old habits of the heart
Are damnably hard to put down
So keen for you my secret love
And seek you still, I do sometimes.
Image: John William Waterhouse