A Poem Written Before The Mirror
"Piano Fingers
and
Obsidian eyes"
Are you the writer of this character?
Did your verses carve out my bow and arrow back
Did your accent stress on early greying hair?
Did you leave something of your history
(Your english birth
my english verse)
in the rhyme and metre of this life?
But most of all
Dear Oracle,
I mean to ask
when you wrote this spectacle
Did you forget to end your ballad
with aso ftly rhyming couplet? Or
