SEEN THROUGH

SEEN THROUGH

I see how
you have framed me

called out
my “ridiculousness”

elevated your
great words over
my paltry efforts somehow

as if
    language itself
is beholden to you

as if you confer its meanings
give it
the right to
exist

restrict its speech
to your narrow
conceptions of
life and
humanity

which are
not as absolute
fixed as you think

soon to
     pass

soon
to be seen through