Poetry of Issue #9        Page 9

Transparency

Beneath all this
bluster and thin
skin, I am pale.
Most of me hides
within an artificial
shadow cast by
my ego. At night,
I burrow into
dark dreams with
laser beams that
bore into my core,
bare myself to
that other side,
where all lies
revealed behind
mysterious shrouds
that melt away, shed
in sun’s first rays.