I will show you my pretty thoughts                                                                                                         
Lovely, poised
Ready for your eyes
 
I wear the perfect word.
This shade of meaning flatters me -
Read me only in this golden light
 
Gaze upon my graceful line
Breathe the scent of secrets
written there
 
My rhyme is lightly curving, draping, shielding
And clothes the feeling
that I find to write
 
Except the pen betrays me, sees beneath -
The ink flows into blots
Spilling out, revealing
 
Like a veil dropped
The silk slips from my fingers
Allowing an unguarded glimpse
 
No chance to pose -
My fears,
My awkward heart,
Unwillingly exposed.

Exposure
By: Kari-Lee Sutherland