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The Elusive Poetress

 

She’s been getting away with it, repeatedly

She’s been walking in the rain just to get wet on purpose, repeatedly

She’s been forcing herself not to forget just to feel worse, repeatedly

She hates that mirror, it makes her feel so worthless, repeatedly

She’s an original sinner but when she’s with him, she couldn't care less, repeatedly

She thought she gave up falling in love a long, long time ago, repeatedly

She guesses she likes it but she can't tell him, he shouldn't really know, repeatedly

She’s been talking to herself just to suggest that she’s selfish, repeatedly

She’s been trying to impress that more is less and she’s repressed, repeatedly

 

She’s on the platform, late at night, and she’s drunk Old Cubans repeatedly

She’s walking to the end to catch her train, her head thumps repeatedly

Then in the distance, she hears him call her name, repeatedly

She tries to ignore him but her heart is saying ‘No’,  repeatedly

But all she can hear are the lyrics of the chorus, repeatedly,

‘However I look, it's clear to see

I love you more than you love me

However I look, it's clear to see

I love you more than you love me’

 

He catches up with her, she keeps it at bay repeatedly

Her inner voice says,’No way, Lee, No way, Lee’, No!’, repeatedly

So she gives him no lee-way,  no lee-way, no, repeatedly

 

They say goodbye and she vanishes into the night

For she is he, and I is she

And from that day forth and for forever will be,

I be known as SEE ME, the elusive poetress.

 

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