The show

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The show

You can see me, hear me, touch me

but I am not really here.

No-one sees behind the mask,

no-one senses that there’s fear.

You’re clinging to the wreckage,

can’t you see, its sinking too.

Its breaking into pieces,

it can never save you.

 

Every kiss is a kiss goodbye,

only you don’t know it yet.

And I must still remember,

though I’m wanting to forget.

Though you look into my eyes,

we are still not face to face,

and if you’re looking for my heart,

there’s just pieces in its place.

 

The curtain’s up again

and the player on the stage.

The audience is hushed,

as I fall under the gaze

of the people in my life

who care but cannot see

that they wouldn’t want to face

what’s on the inside of me.

 

And so the show goes on.

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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