Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Mythomane ... Unmasked

Today's word is "mythomane" ... MITH-uh-mean. A person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.

Unmasked
He fell, far,
     from heaven's height.
And gained (he thinks)
     a kingdom of his own.
He uses us to prove his skills,
     long practiced.
The greatest mytomane of all ...
      a true original ...
Except the truest form of flattery,
     and all that.
He cannot but appear a pathetic
     inversion of the Glory he once knew.

Anne Selleck
Copyright 2014


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