Hide and Seek

From AI,

Thank you for sharing such a deeply emotional and poetic reflection. I’ve shaped your lines into a heartfelt free verse poem that captures the longing, confusion, and hope in your words:

Hide and Seek
by Jessy Jacob

I was thinking�"
my man is hiding.
I see him,
a wildfire in his eyes
when he looks at me.

Where is that fire,
my dear husband?
Where are you?
Why are you hiding?

I am your cousin,
your girlfriend,
your wife�"
as we play
this endless game
of hide and seek.

I thought,
instead of changing dark into complete light,
I’d bring him back�"
back to the man he was
when he was with me.

I believed
he’d take just two minutes
to return,
to feel again,
to burn again.

But our trials�"
thirteen years
of turning dark to white�"
never shifted
even an inch
toward light.