Hide & Seek

I love to play hide and seek with the world

where I hide so well that I cannot be found.

I hunch down between my two ears and

peer mischievously through the eye holes

as others circle and look, calling my name. 

There is a stream of words and thoughts

that occupy my time while I wait to be 

discovered and doors that open and close

like a subconscious escape hatch leading 

to a dizzying number of destinations.

On very rare occasions someone finds me

by asking the right questions and recognizes

the boy sitting in the dark waiting to be 

birthed into a world that has seldom under-

stood him and his peculiar unfulfilled needs. 


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