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Moon and the Elusive Ones

Richard King Perkins II

A mirror will not show what you are.
It doesn’t know your name.

It repulses the very composition of cells
you ask it to reflect.

I remember you now—
your transitory vibrant touch.

No one can get close to such tangible figment,
the glint of your unknowable form.

If I could, I would look upon you,
bind your spirit with gauze and forgiving arms—

but you would only slip quietly away,
separating two worlds as you go.

At times, when the moon clings to me,
others may suspect I’m an elusive as well.

The mirror held to my lips reveals me completely—

resolving with every breath not taken.

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