Through the Kaleidoscope
With every turn, another chase.
With every chase, another place.
With every place, another face.
With every face, another trace
of what it was you used to be
in this grinning mimicry.
Your new name here is Mirrored Me
reflecting all in all I see
leaving to return to tea
learning you were never free
from what it was I were to be
in this spinning imagery
until you aim my scope away
wake dreamy visions from dismay
rethink you think I heard me say
I cannot leave until you stay
true to who we should now be
in this thinning symmetry.
Through the Kaleidoscope © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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Prompt Challenge (Alice down the rabbit hole inspiration) - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2725163-Your-Own-Rabbit-Hole-but-Not-a-Rabbit-Hole
Submitted: May 26, 2019