CREATING YOU

The seconds
flock
about me

nibbling at the Who I Am
time devouring
my existence

my dreams
walk around
naked

a sky
lies asleep
in a window.

my shadow
crawls
up the walls

as if
it longed
to escape  me

the mirror shows me
a stranger
wearing my face

In the candle's flicker
I
live frame by frame

in a black and white
celluloid  
world

I can only touch you
with language
hold you with words

create you time
and time
again

as you come alive
walk about i
n my sentences.

as long as I
write
you are living

I dreading
the final
full stop

I see you
walk away
into an ellipsis' footsteps

you fading into
its dot dot dot
on the snow drift of a page