UNDER THE SURFACE

a woman who looks away
who has a story as everybody has
her history a long one

of how she became a white shadow here
imitates a former self
a pale negative who will never speak

who will now never turn back
and look you in the face
at least she has become that transparent

has now reached the verge of non-existence
no bodily form
and a vestigial portrait that expresses disdain

she will not revive and continues on this course
a voyage only she can fathom
through a filament of blue

there is no substance in what she would never say
under the surface
as she fade fade fades