# Chiaroscuro
**by Francis Hicks**

All your life you
were never
you.
Born one
way, being
another.
I dreamt of
you
with such sad
clarity, not
perfect/
perfection:
all silver and
shadow.
Reflecting
what shines
on
you.

Til this day
past guessing,
seeing
what is
reality.
Breathing,
heart-beating
life.