A Portrait of You

11.7.2022

 

When you’re not there

The rest of the world

It comes into focus

Everything’s there

But all I notice

All I see

I scan the landscape

Take in all my surroundings

All just a world without you

All, yet nothing

When you’re not there

 

 

But when you’re there

For me

There’s no escape

The background

It blurs

It fades

The f-stop

Zeroes in as it falls

You come into focus

And the world fades away

My life in a day

Focuses in on you

A day in my life

Backed by wallpaper glue

 

Fuzzy

Flurry

Buzzed

And blurry

 

Though the world surrounds me

All I see is you

My life becomes

A portrait of you

 

I don’t know how

My world’s not a blur

Then you take control

Of my aperture

As it dials down

The temperature rises

You set my world on fire

 

Gotta put it out

But when I try to zoom out

I’m dizzy with the jitters

As I’m blinded by

Your flash and star filters

 

My life

It may be a blurry collage

But my gut

It tells me

You’re just a mirage

I have to turn my focus

On solving this caper

Dial my f-stop up

Back to my life’s wallpaper

 

It’s not flashy

But at least it’s mine

You are the light

My eyes are drawn to

But my life’s more

Than a portrait of you

 

The proof

Right there for me to see

Because in each portrait

You’re never looking at me