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Muse's Place

Nic Bernstein

Do you think that you know
  who I am, what I feel
  just because we spend so much
  time together

How do you know that you
are seeing me
And not just seeing us

Don't call me an iconoclast
  just because I don't
  believe in any
  color-by-numbers philosophies

You may call me a cynic
  but I feel my karma
  is too valuable to invest
  in fly-by-night dogmas

If I can't see it, hear it
  feel it, smell it, than
  it just doesn't fit
  in my mythology

Granted, I have co-opted
  the features I most
  like from the other
  sects

Muses figure prominently
in this
but then, muses always do

You may be my muse
but that gives you little
purchase upon my soul

I thought that muses allow
us to see ourselves
not the other way around

So if you want to know me
  take me as your muse
or take off your shades
  and read the pain in my eyes
I didn't put it there
  just for you

It resonates for me, too