What did I say to deserve that?
What could I say?
All that electricity
An electric smile
a forever smile
where'd you get a smile like that?
it forces my faces
enhances my pretenses
manages to unmake me
all at once
How can it be?
the truth is a broken bleeding
mass of barbed indifference
filled with emptiness and excess
that rarely applies to what we want
or believe we need
and yet
that smile
Is it for me?
Could joy have manifested
so pedestrian
so unassuming
but fervent and without beckoning?
I am embraced in the warmth
of a rapture less about heat
and more about light
Will it endure?
Can anything so pure
violate the cycle of life
the decay of ennui
the fabric of saturation?
I shall see
for now I will bask
and dance in the glow
reminded that if I try,
I can touch forever
Copyright: Brian Pellerino 2008
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Like the ash of a cigarette that brought the cancer
It says it wouldn’t and maybe even believes it didn’t
These riddles and their responses, the first signs
Like knowing you are ill yet not knowing what it is
Feeling like a hypochondriac
Then, when the immune system is spent
It strikes at its worst, takes it all over
The diagnosis finally revealed
In stage 4 it’s terminal
And you have pneumonia
About to go into a coma
No winning this
That Jet black hair and electric smile
Like cancer it waited it out, mostly silent
While it infected the whole
It finally succeeded in its quest, it usually does
Took out the whole body and the whole family
It usually does
Now time to heal, for those that survive
As best we can
Be always safe,
Karen
Exquisite lines and shape: reminds me of a bolt of electicity. :) Well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, K.