real boy.

I thought a shadow was a man and chased

a promise spoken not. I wished into 

an empty whole, an ocean left to waste 

and drought. His heart, cast in a solemn hue, 

black trenches where blood pumped to dry. A thick

mask to hide a formless face, a small lie

to mask a jaded high. His love, a mix

of lust and doubt to warp the virgin light

askew. He calls when he has disappeared

within his mind left to brood. He cannot

be left without a torch to shape a mired

design, or else he loses all he’s got, 

a defective mold of a man he’s cloned

not even an ounce of water would hold.