flashback
big piranha
got the fear
body quake
and adrenal
expulsion
it’s that
weary
old
fight
or flight
paradigm
I’ll shake it
though
I go
by the
numbers
it’s just
a question
of time
they persecuted him
because they could
because it’s easy
to close your mind
to the different
and he was different
he was a peacock
amidst vultures
he was a libertine
in the company of slaves
he was a shooting star
who burned too brightly
and he was my friend
when there was no other
.