PARADOX

PARADOX

Here’s a paradox (paRAdox),
all poetry being paradoxical

this the Cretan
told me
       (all Cretans
being liars)

you thinking you saw me
recognized me

asking me if I were the person
you thought I was
me answering it
wasn’t me
at all

for me not feeling
myself that moment
deciding
     to reject once and for all
the love
I have always felt for you

the hold you have
had over me
               
but here you are
reaching out

      maybe I should
correct myself,  become
the best
     person I can be

no lie, no lie,
not even
    paradoxically.