wanting to
i did to you
my own
makeup
to make
you
forget my
face as it is
just a mask
a persona
that can be
erased
like a clown's
upside down
smile doesn't
mean he or she
is unhappy
underneath
so feeling like
the phantom
i operatically
chained you
with not seen
changes ever
before for
you are are
you not
Isabella
and i not
your Quasi
modo
Poetry is more than words
it is song
music
and beat
a movement
of dance
of jigs
spins and reels
old and new
coming together
rhyme and meter
of voice
a passion so deep
in language not understood
but felt
breath funnelled
through instruments
evoking sounds
through hands and feet
Rock n Roll moves
operatically
through ears to heart
hips mardi gras en force
from them to us
and in between
a party begins
(Inspired by the notion that every conversation is not just one of words)
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