Ever wonder how a cockroach (or other bug) feels when you have it trapped in the corner and are about to crush it under your foot? Do you ever think that, if it could speak, it would try to talk you out of it? Try to convince you that you should allow it to stay in your home even though it knows it is an unwanted inhabitant? I think some people are the same …..
Scrambling like a cockroach
When the lights come on
What to do, what to say
To convince me to let you stay
Desperate measures by a desperate man
Afraid of losing status and standing
What I represent for you – security, shelter, comfort
Cowering in the corners of my life
Pleading to be spared
Grabbing up whatever scraps you can
Living off my substance
Contributing nothing
But filth and pestilence
Of heart and mind
I’ve tried shooing you out the door
Still you persist, like the vermin
To stay here, unwanted
Trying, with all that’s in you, to hold on
To what is familiar and safe
Afraid that I may yet squash you
Knowing I’d be well within my rights
Yet desperately clinging
To the hope that I won’t
©2011 – Andrea J. Shannon
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