The Game of Image

We see in others
what we want to see
and others show us
what they feel
we may love.

We conceal
our tender selves
within our forts,
behind our walls.

Can we ever know
one another. Can we see
in another's eyes
the flow where pretense
does not speak.

When we fall in love,
or make a friend
do we love a portrait
in the end - a collaboration
of two? Can we grow
as we discover who

         lives
                    within?