INFATUATIONS OF A LONELY SOUL

    Roumiana Bankova


     
    I like to dream
    that I have feelings for this man.
    I like to dream
    that this is The Love.
    I like to dream
    that he is free to choose.
    I like to dream
    that he doesn't know I love him.
    I like to see
    he is talking to that woman.
    I like to think
    there is more than conversation.
    I like to think
    she is beautiful through his perception.
    I like to think
    that I am excluded from his choice.
    I like to think
    of this story of my own falling.
    I like to think
    of myself as the only victim of my own torture.
    I like to think
    a self-destruction story created in my own mind.

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