Lurker

7/6/2025

Lurker

Shy and quiet,

Still and silent.

Close the curtain,

Hide behind it.

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Watching from the window,

Keeping tabs on you.

Unseen, incognito.

Anonymously viewed.

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Monitor your every move.

I’m too shy to talk to you.

A stalker, obsessed? Not true.

Nor am I a spy, that’s rude.

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I am an observer,

Not to be perceived.

I lounge in shadow,

Veiled behind the screen.

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Let me gaze inside

My glass of scrying.

My vision sights

Across the ocean.

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Presence masked,

One with the crowd.

Individually unknown,

Added in the count.

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I’m the eyes on the trees.

I’m the ears on the wall.

I’m the face peering in

When you think that you’re alone.

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Buried beneath my periscope,

I’m underground and taking notes.

But that all changes when you drop a poll.

I rise from my bunker to submit my vote.

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Opinions heard but not shared.

Viewers discretion. Beware.

Secrets told, proliferate.

Embarrassments return again.