Lust was the lure, yet
Love endured (if only a moment);
Was it feigned, the love?
Eye upon eye, we felt it;
Strangers in our drunken stall, love
Stashed in a gentle, dark ages kiss.
Why or when, who recalls,
We just...stopped, and
Never saw each other again.
Pregnant, now what?
Now three? (It cannot be).
I feel fine, my answer, bigger and
Not alone (never alone), yet all by myself,
No friends or family or means, yet
I always ate...and slept;
Kindness followed me, never ahead,
Just always present, precisely
When need be.
We talked every day,
Idle chit-chat of a mother, and
Soundless, lovely voices.
I prayed, to linger in my being,
Let me love them as this, but they
Grew and grew and grew.
Invisible before, people smiled at me;
Real big smiles, happy smiles, full of love;
Some touched me (knowing I’d be ok with It).
“Hey girls", said my fellow Hobo,
“Beautiful, just like their mama.”
In the moment it took me to think,
He was too far to catch, me being so fat.
The days seemed endless,
This was me now, forever;
I was happy with that, but
Woke and knew, today was
My dread, Goodbye Day
To all that was new.
The bus was full (until it was not);
I traveled, as far as I should,
‘Til I knew this was the plot;
Sunlit flowers, they’d love it here in
Our beautiful nameless nowhere.
I waited for the bus to leave, then
Turned into the flowers, as the
Loving Son quelled our pain.
Slowly I walked, on and on, then stopped,
Here we'll lie to expire,
Tethered forever, us as one.
But they wanted out, and
I couldn't stop them;
One by one, same three girls,
But not.
I sat with them, nestled
In the circle of my legs;
They didn’t cry, it was I.
Our wet hands touched,
Knowing each other, but
Just then meeting; the
Mid-sun scorchingly hot.
Prepared, I cut our tethers,
My girls so briefly mine;
Woefully easy, I stood up and walked,
Walked in the direction of The Son.
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