Impostor
Please read and enjoy the poetry of a talented writer.
“Little Bird” by Alex Cherry
failure lurks in her house of success
in cruel beauty of mirrors
reflecting her highly made fiction
the mind in a bind of coherence
that chokes off the impulse of pride
with its fraudulent fingers inflicting
arcane wounds of doubt upon triumph
embarrassed by dint of her certainty
accolades laid at her feet are but
musty bouquets of dead flowers
rewards of unmerited merit
untrustworthy genius
or is this the credulous stuff
of in vogue pop-psychology
missing the simple indicia
that here is a bastardized strain
of a tendent raw human humility
caught in the death-grip of guilt
a congenital outgrowth perhaps
of one’s living a thespian’s life
inside lives that sprang whole
from no more than a pen