Admit

your distant love affair is with yourself

Photo: © David Whyte

Admit

Admit,
your distant love affair
is with yourself,
and that

no one
can play
harder to get:

the unwritten letters,
the plays for time,
the heartbreak
over never being
properly answered.

That coy look
of false seduction
in the mirror,
or that hard look

to hide
what should not
be hidden.

The invitation
to undoing,
and to allowi…