Working Everything Out

"Perfect"-- he said while I was taking a cigarette

Confused and perplexed about his message

Wondered deeply in what he meant

Kept looking him

but he just smiled

with those pearl white teeth



I looked myself internally

Trying to figure why he said that

But I was unable to do so



The part of me that he'd saw

Was not the way I saw myself

As an brilliant person knowing how to use a cigarette



Poet: Chelsie Rivera (-2018)