Captured

YOU CAPTURED ME
AT FIRST AN UNWILLING PARTICIPATOR
I BEGAN TO READ EACH WORD
YOU PUT TO PAPER
YOUR ABILITY TO UNDRESS ME
WITH THE CURVES OF EACH LETTER
MADE ME FEEL VULNERABLE
HOW COULD YOU POSSIBILY KNOW MY INNER
THOUGHTS BUT YET….

I READ ON

I’D LIE IF I SAID IT DIDN’T MATTER
MY DEFENSE MECHANISM WAS BEING CHALLENGED
AND YOU WERE THE PERPERTRATOR

TRYING SO HARD TO BE COMPOSED
GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT
I’M STILL VERY MUCH IN CONTROL
RATIONALISING WITHIN THAT THIS IS ONLY
THE WORK OF A TROUBLED SOUL WHO
UNWITTENLY FOUND THENSELVES MASSAGING
MY EGO – HELL NO!
SURELY THE CORRECT WORD SHOULD BE AMATUEUR
TAKING HIMSELF MUCH TOO SERIOUS - WAS I SUPPOSED
TO BE FLATTERED?

BUT STILL….I READ ON

MESMERISED AND QUESTIONING WHY SUCH PROFOUND AND YET SO SIMPLE WORDS
KEPT CARESSING ME SO INTIMATELY
EXPECTING THIS ONE THING ONLY
THAT I CONTINUE TO READ

I START TO REACT AGGRESSIVELY
MY GOD
THIS IS ONLY POETRY
IT’S NOT AS IF IT’S GONNA UNLOCK THE KEY
TO MY HEART
BUT AS I ARRIVED AT YOUR FULL STOP
IT WAS TOO LATE
THE PENNY HAD ALREADY DROPPED
I HAD READ MYSELF ALL THE WAY
INTO YOUR ARMS

CAPTURED I AM
AND NOW WANT TO BE
INDEED IF THIS IS PRISON
I DON’T EVER WANT TO BE FREE!

ELITHA©2005