Pale Shelter

Is this real?
Why say it is 
 when you know
 it isn't true, this isn't reality.

It's the dream 
 you take me with seductive guile
 and all the while, 
 the lie becomes the truth,
it hides and cowers beneath your smile.

You are the deceiver
 the magic man, 
 the great pretender
setting heart and soul afire with passion, lust, desire.

Hold me close, 
 love me as you love yourself
 promise me the dream
 and here together we can hide 
in your labyrinth of unsheltered schemes.

This is real, the reality
 of everlasting dreams in ice castles
 unending and melting in its lies display,
the lovers' dream of two, tangoing in pale shelter.




for John Hamilton's Pale Shelter
11/17/19
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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December 7, 2019 at 5:43 PM
Congrats on your winning poem D.M.
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December 7, 2019 at 1:52 PM
I loved this one DM, especially the last tangoing in pale shelter! Congrats on a fine win!
Na Avatar
November 17, 2019 at 1:28 AM
Wonderful ink D.M. This one will place high. Thanks for sharing. Good luck in the contest
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