The Real You

By RJ

Copyright © 2007 by RJ.
All Rights Reserved.

Email Codey’s World
  1. You laughed, “haha!”
  2. Even covered your mouth
  3. With your hand
  4. As if to stop the
  5. Burst of laughter
  6. Your shoulders shook and
  7. Your eyes squinted
  8. Like laughter was
  9. Oh so natural
  10. To you, but
  11. Why do I see
  12. Otherwise? Like
  13. You’re faking it?
  14.  
  15. Weeping, you have
  16. Tears. Chests vibrating
  17. Like your sobs
  18. Are real and your tears
  19. Not a crocodile’s
  20. But your wails sound
  21. Practiced. Wooden, I know
  22. They’re not real
  23. You could do better
  24.  
  25. Your screams are
  26. Shrill when you’re mad
  27. The highest pitch
  28. You reach as if your
  29. Temper has reached higher
  30. But where is your
  31. Heart? It’s not here
  32. I know it’s not
  33. I should have felt
  34. It throb angrily
  35. Against my chest
  36. But there’s nothing
  37. There, only emptiness
  38.  
  39. I don’t know why
  40. I see through the
  41. Way you smile and
  42. Laugh, scream and cry
  43. Pinnochio was
  44. A better actor
  45. His wooden smile was
  46. More heartfelt
  47. Than yours
  48.  
  49. Don’t take offense
  50. You know
  51. What I’m talking about
  52. Your reactions
  53. Are manufactured
  54. From the brain
  55. Instead of the heart
  56. Do better, I say
  57. You can learn, I know
  58. Open your eyes and ears
  59. See the beauty around
  60.  
  61. Then maybe one day
  62. I won’t be talking
  63. To a marionnette
  64. Who knows how to
  65. Copy human emotions
  66. I could even
  67. Smile with you
  68. Stare into your eyes
  69. Calm your anger
  70. And offer my shoulders
  71. To your tears
  72.  
  73. I just want to
  74. Know the real you
  75. Hear your laughter
  76. Like it’s the first time
  77. You laughed as a toddler
  78. I just want to
  79. See the real you
  80. Touch who you really are
  81. And kiss the lips
  82. That belongs to you
  83. I just want to
  84. Love the real you
  85. Be one with you
  86. So bring out your soul
  87. Don’t be afraid to show
  88. The real you because
  89. You bring out of me
  90. The man that I
  91. Should be

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