[Poetry] A dry cracky hope

You are the mannequin of whom people love to stare

As dashing as one wishes to be

As dreamy as one can’t be

You get all people’s second glimpse

Once is never enough

Yet twice will be a bit too much

This craving from underneath

Screaming in hissing whispers

Crawling upon my naked desire

Shoving to the bleeding surface

Can’t you see this?

Mind me,

I’m checking the cold feet

While pressing the almost-jammed Pause button

This is a wait-worthy, thee…

Supposed to be, most likely

Mind you,

I set my bets already

Twice bigger. Half expected. Risking to its fullest

Ready to fool my fate to the lowest

Can’t you hear me?

It’s just like contouring shades of vanishing shadows

In the last needless effort of me, clearing the smokes

Then I stumble upon a dead-end

Only to bewail a happy ending for nobody

And when I look around, there I see

No one beside me

No one besides me.

G.

Pic from here.