POEM - Warning

Be advised:
That when you take my hand
To shake it;
When you read these words;
When i speak to you
about everything -
this is all veneer.
This is not what I am.

All I ask of you is this:
that you save just one tiny spot
inside you someplace,
for that one tiny part of me
you have yet to discover.

M C Biegner
12/2005