Not As It Was

"Not As It Was," by Danny Lyons

[TakeAnotherLook]

Like a floating spot

In the eye, It wasn't there.

[Not the way you saw]

Not the way you felt.

It was simply never there.

[Not the way it was]

Circumstantially,

A mirage. Cruel illusion.

[Hallucination]

The trickster got you.

Hoaxer. Practical Joker.

[And you bet on it]

Bought, for a moment:

Conclusions from conjecture.

[You had it all wrong]

Like a floating spot,

Moving the more you watch it.

[A figment of you]