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# Picture in Picture (v2)
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/picture-in-picture-v2/
- Published: 2023-06-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Leap off the canvas, will you? Come to me. Embrace me as you would a jealous lover. Protest, claim that you're innocent, and free, that there is nothing, nothing to discover,
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Leap off the canvas, will you? Come to me.  
Embrace me as you would a jealous lover.  
Protest, claim that you're innocent, and free,  
that there is nothing, nothing to discover,

and I'll believe you, old fool that I am.  
I long for but a moment in your glory,  
and persevere, all consequence be damned,  
to be more than a footnote in this story.

Your heartless stare, slight curling of the lip,  
so captured in your drawing room, idyllic.  
A grail I dare not touch, no, dare not sip.  
Defeated, conquered. Tempera and acrylic.

If only I could draw you as my own.  
The paint is drying, and I'm all alone.