e Little River Review - Gorham High School!
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Meg Towle<br />
Lullaby to a Narcissist<br />
Don’t mind me, I’ll sit<br />
Just here, smoking your smile<br />
drinking your drawl<br />
Trying not to choke on your laughter<br />
Trying not to drown<br />
in endless seas of you<br />
dancing in distances, dark<br />
& darling.<br />
A whispered refrain<br />
to never refrain<br />
from lighting love’s brief candle<br />
but to repeat and sustain<br />
that inchoate, incalculable<br />
bright brilliant burning:<br />
To swallow silent screams<br />
and scowl at the sun<br />
and ever, always, only<br />
Spill secrets to the moon —<br />
�e only ears that matter.<br />
To live,<br />
— only —<br />
In the light of a thousand golden hours.<br />
To love,<br />
— always —<br />
In the dimples of smiles a dream devours.<br />
To light,<br />
— ever —<br />
In verses reversed to charm and empower.<br />
To fall in love with yourself,<br />
And compose odes to the only one<br />
Who matters.<br />
Lullaby to a Narcissist<br />
~ 16 ~
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