Repeat: Lie, lie, lie – Poetry Portfolio

Repeat: Lie, lie, lie

Imitation through repetition,
observation and tacticians,
playing nice and nodding in time,
lie, lie, lie.

Imitation through observation,
these tacticians using repetition
to reel in fans on hooks,
gouged through their smiling cheeks,
dragged laughing and screaming.

To act as one acts, and to do as you do,
you conjure a ghost,
empty, dead, but full
of the romantic projections
of a clueless audience.

Full of the dreams from the graveyard of our minds,
wishes forgotten come to light,
but held by leash in the shadows
to make sure they never see
too clearly.