Are you real?

Are you real?

You are a tangent, infinitely close

And yet you fade away too soon

You glow awhile in borrowed light

Arriving in phases, like the moon

You come close only to turn away

You seek and then you elude

You speak with a thunderous silence

You pretend,  you delude.

You are a puzzle I need to solve

You are the question that went unasked

You are the game that I can never win

You are a riddle which comes masked.

You exist only in imagination

But the warmth of the glow is real

Only time will tell if you are summer rain

Or an elaborate winter spiel.

  2014 Preeti Shenoy

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