What catches your eye
How close can you see
How far do you look
When starring at me
Through sight
In the soul
To the heart
It don't show
Blind in the dark
At most,
Just a glimpse
Fast like a spark
Overlooked and missed
Two faces apart,
Suddenly drift.
Inside and out
Mistaken as one
On the outside it seems im having fun
On the inside I scream, I fall, I run.
I hold on to you
But really im gone
I smile and laugh
Inside I'm numb
You feel my hair
You can't feel my heart
You touch my skin
You can't feel my thoughts
My blood swims blue
When spilled, it's red
I know you don't see the inside out the way you said.


© Joanne Lea Potter