The Moment
by alluremnt

It isn't easy ... to succumb
To the very thing you run from...
That mesmerizing feeling when...
You know you're face to face
With...
   The devil...
Demons haunt you,
Even in public places....
The very eyes you hide from
Seek you out...
Across a room of laughter...
It's no match for your
Filtered in smile...
  The one you saw on
  The girl in the movie..

She ordered a double..
..... you call for a shot.
Hopeless of course
To the one who sees...
..... darkened soul....
        Cry of the flesh...
Ache of hunger..
  She's angry,

Is it too much to ask for...
To be.... Caught in the moment...
...... to feel just once...
        that you're like everyone else?

Yet.... You're never invisible
  To the one who sees.

© Constance 2001