22/30 - Write Me

WRITE ME

strip me back naked

words your only tools

find me thesis topic sentence

line break

I want you

to write me

this lack of distance

myopiates my vision

renders efforts meaningless

but you

you could say what I mean

you could see through saran wrap

designed to burn flesh from these round hips

your vision of me could just be 20/20

I am not asking to be muse

just mirror me real time portrait

with flaws

show me my sentence

you know how to do this

you have literary prowess

truth me in black and white

proof me no edits

I am adrift in a sea of metaphor

fish me out

dry me off

set me down on a firm bed of

simple subject verb predicate

It gets so flowery out here sometimes

especially in spring

what I am craving is straight up meaning

If necessary go back to cave painting

As long as the weight of things

stops getting lost in translation

Write me Marilyn’s suicide note

Write me confession of JFK’s assassin

Write me the mind of an Israeli soldier

Write me everything I can’t grasp

This whirl is too much

Gravity is losing the center

I have lost perspective

So write me

please

you who really see

I beg your clarity

for something longer than a haiku

less arduous than sonnet

write me

one good solid paragraph

that’s all I ask

even one stanza of my obituary

something I can read

and understand

minus mental gymnastics

unreliable narrators

self-serving commentary

selective memory

Write me true reflection

like the first time

you saw your face in a lake

clear fresh wonder

Write me that

if you can if you will

write me trust exercise

fall and catch me with your words

I will submit to your precision

then watch me

and see if I bloom

in the eyes of your truth.

c. e. amato

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