2 Stories

There are two stories,
the one I live;
a light and beautiful thing;
and the one I tell,
words mostly. Images,
sometimes moving.

In one story I am
brave and adventurous;
I tell it like it is.
In the other I am less
corageous, more thinking,
pondering, feeling for the rhyme.

In one I am mostly understood,
my gestures leading the way,
raw thoughts, my bare skull a beacon.
In the other, gagged, rectangled;
I hint only, often laying
dictionaries to waste in the process.


Cor, August 2001