Just a lizard at heart

Reid Wells

Why is my meaning

So painfully obvious

To everyone except me

I’ll never be mysterious

 

I don’t want to be!

Rather be misunderstood on my own term

 

I am an opened-mouth-secret

And my depths are profound

 

–not intellectual

Just,

Like a cube has many faces

 

The merging is painful

Shaving down the edges

Borders grown of shame

Inside becomes out

 

I pursue it in earnest

I give up the comfort to become honest

 

What funny little shells we wear and adorn with lies

As if they cannot see the crooked way we lurch

 

I ought to become like a chameleon

Go read a fucking saurology book then get back to me on that

Maybe I’m just a lizard at heart