Mind Games

How we play games with people and ourselves

 

Mind Games (how we deceive each other and ourselves)

 

I see you but you don’t see

What is real

What I feel

When you look at me

I let you see,

What you want to see

When you look at me

What you wish I could be

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You’re looking right through me

Thinking that you know me

Feeding me your lies,

Afraid to show me

That I have no place,

Occupy no space

And I leave no trace

In your empty heart

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So I look at you,

I see right through

The layers of lies

Built behind your eyes

I look through me

Behind my disguise

Through the eyes of a stranger

I believe my own lies

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You’re thinking that you do

But you don’t feel my heart

You don’t dream my dreams

You don’t play my part

You don’t know my mind

You don’t feel my pain

But I know your kind

And I know your game

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So I look at you,

And I see it’s true

What I thought I felt

It was never for you

I let myself see

What I wanted to see

What I needed from you

What I needed for me

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Now the clock keeps ticking

And the days go by

I’m still here with you

And I don’t know why

Author's Note

This piece is best read aloud to a quick beat, like a Rap. That's how I heard it in my head when I wrote it. Fast and furious.

Reviews

[shareeg]

I liked this poem a lot it was very pretty and I felt a connection to it. I think that many people would be able to relate to this because it's so real.

[world war jessica <3]

i get this entirely. probably the only poem i've related to so much. =] good write. self reflection is hard to do. id never have been able to write this.