Limerence

LIMERENCE

angry and sad

a parade of

facades to protect

shouting! swearing, s**t

muscles and fighting

a mind lost to the

social expectations

but when you

took off your mask, I

I smiled wide

because underneath it all

all of the false images

of unmediated masculinity

that I never needed

nor wanted

I saw you, really

looked, hope and

dreams, the future

and the past,

the present, here

and now, a man

free of any claims

vulnerable but happy,

a phosphene in the

closed eyes of society,

the aurora at the

end of the blackness

lying supine,

facing the abnormalities

we consider ordinary.

you should know,

I like ordinary

normal, you

I don't need fake personas

shields to mask the real

real you, real us

because you took off the mask

the cloak to hide it all

the insecurities

and like a jigsaw

you fell into place

layer upon layer

like a butterfly

you cacooned and grew

until you became so perfect.

you conquered

all of the doubts I had

with the abolition of

your coverings and you

let find me, you.

I'm in limerence

infatuated with the

unmasked

uncloaked

unveiled

real version of you.