Thursday, December 09, 2004

No. Absolutely not.

You have no immunity to raised eyebrows

and carefully crafted questions

placed so well after a pause

in the conversation.

Your eyes flicker up once,

twice,

almost unable to constrain yourself.

Bask in the warm washing rays

of all you envision, all you think of,

while the world looks on and infers

a deluge of disrepute.

But go ahead. Go on and watch

all your fears rain down on you

in shards of self hatred

and regret.

Go ahead and fly,

only to rejoin the earth and see

that you left your God

seconds after you found him.