Green Elephant

 



The jealous mastodon outside,
is talking with the rainfall, asking
“who hasn’t been inspired?”

Easy to say, with halogen tusks,
and enough mystique to last decades,
“too easy indeed“, said the rain.

Not even the crickets,
with their harsh satirical chirp,
can deny that, without question

Though…

Through fear, and naivety, youth
had taken a closer look, for once,
and found the key to illusions;

Uncertainty, and without the picket fence,
the chain-link doghouse, and old man,
it’s simply not a creature, nor home, anymore.