smells like gasoline - but the park
is sunny, rain and dark weather long gone
thus the wariness appears. gone.
a spark, in other places, a spark of love,
is fire, a good kind
and this time it was a bomb,
cockroach quite obvious tries
to befriend me, winks, feelers trying
to do a high five - am i not the best?
those little scrawny legs with hairs fumbled
towards me, wanting to come closer
such intimacy i shall not want. i really do not.
if i told you there was another dimension,
you'll call my bluff
and say -
it is only in my head.
if i told you heaven became broken to show
that skin did not matter,
got to, have, has to be
exquisite: catch that sickly
smile. trying to disguise a wrapped rose
to thorns, only thorns
but the gait of his walk, the eyes so very
hungry for more, what rose is it?
i hear it works wonders,
just delete, erase - like it never happened
did it not? the mind wanders
and corridors snake about, it did, squash
that gnat, there problem solved!
elation, wonder struck, a rolling stone heats up
i come to you in great tidings,
i come to you bearing gifts,
i come to you to take that burden off!
but you don't see behind the tide
lies a snake, a giant serpent,
but you don't see that the trojan