The Greatest Fear

Here
On the Eve of Halloween

My greatest Fear
is that I am not in love
with an angel
nor that she has guided me my entire life
with gentle grace
and beauty
and that I have given my heart
to someone
who does not love me


As darkness approaches
and monsters come
knocking upon my door

I will hand out baked cookies
and gum
and chocolate


But in my soul
that has been bound to her

I wait

A crown upon my head
a chair
my arms
held fast
to a throne that resembles
a broken chair

White linen cloth
A single light bulb overhead

Does She touch up in the mirror

And then
close the door
Leave me lying here


Your favorite darkness

- and then
a knock upon the door
like the tell tale heart


And I hand candy

to a Christian Zombie
Vampire

and a half decayed avatar
of a professional Golfer


A faerie
and one kid that looks vaguely

like

Mitt

Romney

Comments

Anonymous said…
Enough with the flippant joke ending you tend to tag your poems with, they don’t serve you well. It feels disingenuous and ruins the tone and meaning. It’s a total cop out. You can do better- you just never feel like it.
Is it that challenging for you to be *halfway* decent to me?
You absolutely *had* to play your stupid-ass game. You couldn’t stand it, being nice to me for as much as 15 Goddamned minutes in a row. How does my blood taste to you? Can I make it more sweet or more salty for your dining pleasure?