Reconsider








Though I beg you to reconsider,
You have every right to speak my pain
on a stage in the name of art
The kind of burrowed pain
Only an introvert could leave
undeclared, unspoken and undevoted  
to the crowd; not as you are its slave,
its grand acting chained breathless entertaining slave
“be a simple kind of man”
You have nothing to yourself
I am branded, and burned and singed
To elevate and aggravate my worst fears
on the numbed faces of dispersed strangers
who will never know the feeling
of my fingers on their brow
 under a low lit ceiling of Sundays
                        And Mondays
                        And Tuesdays
            And  all  days
Of our eleven years

I beg you to reconsider.


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