Enlightenment

I see myself as a pale cipher*
in the codebook of our love
I say 'our love'
so as to persuade myself
that I was ever something
you did actually love
And not that it was only me
that made my love a keepsake
to take out from time to time
and show off
like a ring in my finger
presuming mine was also treasured
fully realising now
it was only cherished by me

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