Poet Lady Katz: new forum reply to Midnight Monologue

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<p>Thank you so much for submitting this vivid and very complex and compelling poem for consideration for Featured Poem of the Week.  You have a very strong voice and you maintain a considerable energy throughout the poem.  I appreciate you sharing it with me, Susan</p>

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Original Post by Tanay Sengupta

Midnight Monologue

<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are drawn to chaos,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You like the screams that don’t let you sleep</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You crave for the chaos </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That doesn't let you sleep. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are enchanted by the illusions —</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The illusions that haunt you in daylight</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are enamoured by the illusion </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That you see in broad daylight. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In plain sight like a devil in the dark,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The shadows know your reality </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the light hides the façade </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That you can see in the dark. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You see it, you know it</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And you crave it </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, you wear new clothes on your rotten skin</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because I know that you know it. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You look at chaos with lecherous eyes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And make love to the demons that don’t let you sleep. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then you pity yourself </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And drown in it as you weep. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You let your illusions guide you;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The illusions that haunt you in broad daylight. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They are the ones that will kill you </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you try to sleep at night. </span></p>
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