Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Egg Shells Oct. 16, 2013

 


 Everything is egg shell,

one wrong step

the universe cracks open

the yoke spills out

none of us immune to her

passing through our lives,

 each needing to feed off

 what is inside her,

only needing to

crack it open first to get inside,

assuming she is more vulnerable

than she is,

 counting on it,

taking on faith the face we see

 is her real face,

when we should know it is not,

this not exactly a life,

a mask she pulls over herself

 because she is even

more vulnerable

than we believe,

she the only one

who can protect it,

 to save it, to keep it

 from being crushed,

we, so bent on sucking

out the yoke,

we create cracks

we vowed not to create,

 breaking a trust

we vowed we never would,

 none of us as

good as we pretend,

she knows it,

 counting on it,

 making it possible

to get on with her life

with as little guilt

when jilting us.

 

 


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