the fly

           I would like to be

the fly on the wall

when you tell

yourself your secrets 

do you lie

    embellish

make believe that

you’re someone else

somewhere else

we all have our

sense of who we are

but it’s rather different

than what others see

I would like to be

the fly on the wall

when you tell

yourself your secrets 

do you lie

    embellish

make believe that

you’re someone else

somewhere else

you don’t see your best

you stick on a stereotype

that becomes you

but isn’t, quite

representational

I would like to be

the fly on the wall

when you tell

yourself your secrets 

do you lie

    embellish

make believe that

you’re someone else

somewhere else

it isn’t any different

than how you look

for what’s worse in others

not seeing them

helps you not

to look at yourself.

in the end                           what will the fly see