The subtext of Clark and Lex's relationship has always been a strong underlying current of the show, and it's always been capable of sparking my imagination.   Below are several poems that I've written about that subtext.  The first one is called "Hidden," and it placed in poetry contest over the summer at the college where I work.  The second one is a sonnet that is written in iambic pentameter, and it's called "A Sweet Bright Light."  Both poems have the same theme.  If you have any questions or comments about them, please email me!

 

Hidden

My mask is tight

To hide from you.

My love, my desire, chained by fear

I am afraid you will see me

I am afraid you will discover me

Your smile I would posess no longer

All that I cherish, I would lose

No soft brush of cotton

No sweep of sable lashes

No sea foam eyes that change their color

when touched by the sun's playful hand.

I remain behind my mask

while you show me your essence

in all your child-like innocence.

Only in my dreams does my mask shatter.

Only in my dreams do you see what I hide.

Only there do you accept the hot and salty storm of my confession

and absolve me of my sins,

while you baptize me in the cool waters of your love.

 

A Sweet Bright Light

Behind my mask, the pain is hidden well

and all the world believes my haughty smile.

So none may know the cries I never tell

From wounded pride that's buried behind my guile.

 

Your beauty blossoms like a youthful rose

With angels wings you seemed so poised for flight;

My broken soul so longs to share that pose,

but I fear my darkness may destroy your light.

 

I know it cannot be, and mourn alone

while in my dreams I touch your sun-kissed skin.

Forbidden love, for it I must atone

and hold my carnal yearning deep within.

 

Yet, if your sea-foam eyes might life to mine;

Your soul I'd make eternal love divine.