Getting To Know You Poem by Daniel Peter Jones

You recite emotions
As if practiced and told,
You feel the you within
Imitating the slow

You laugh and I see
Micro emotions, flickering
At each end of your lips

As if each curve and tip
Points to doubts untold

And as eye lids flicker;
Nervous flames, I watch
Fidgeting fingers and
Magnified shame

But your human, although
Maybe you can't see
Through this veil of in confidence
You try not to be

You'll learn as I learnt once
That happiness isn't free

You must lose everything
Before the real you
Manifests in
Me