Imitation

Numb in clouds of anonymity,

rain washes lives existing on fringes

of sunglassed voyeurs hiding identity,

powerless to avoid hazed lives,

unfurled charms reinventing life,

as they taste salt of weathered rocks.

Shooting random arrows aimlessly,

confessing but remaining hidden,

as life’s absurdities are exposed.

Invisible guest at your table

subjects all to surveillance

from small scribbles of truth,

lingering longingly before

wandering willfully at slow pace

past shuttered blinds

and blank canvases splattered

by winds of misfortune.

Paper dragons in choppy seas

vanish in mazed anonymity of

         CYBERSPACE.