What do you see

What do you see

In the shallows

Of this still pond

Barely worth the trouble

Of navigation

Its lifeless depths

Dull in comparison

To the light in your eye

Narcissus was godly

But too consumed

In self-absorption

To realise his love

Was more than an echo

How did you know

There was more

To me than this

When truth

Lay hidden so deeply

From itself

Even if

This hotchpotch

Of ungodly

Existential psychology

Is a tenuous approach

Toward recognition

Self-indulgence

Is still an honest response

To the progress

Of my diversion

What did you see

To hold the attention

When in truth

My inner core

Is more than easily

Revealed

As self-interest

Or am I amiss

Tell me river elf

How it is

You deem to know

This dark reflection

More intimately

Than I have ever

Known myself.