The Poet You Never Were

Forget the broken backed stretch across a painted

Background you've never experienced.

Forget the lazy days of daydream departure to faraway

Laughs you've never heard.

Forget the backwards walk through liminal windows you

Never knew existed.

Forget the bells tolling an hour of redemption, a

Minute of fancy you've never been given.

Forget the love letters penned by sad faced boys

You've never met.

Forget the unwritten, uncollected works of the poet

You never were.