fast and sharp and smart

You?
You're a wolf
fast and sharp and smart
loose before the soft white underbelly of
the slow and fat and not-smart people you see.

a dangerous outlaw
a looming threat
raising red flags
sounding the sirens

Fear against the fast and sharp and smart

realizing a lion is in the room

I seem to be waking up in the morning

and when I realize it is a new day
I have the same sort of reaction
as realizing a lion is in the room

Lion taming is a favorite hobby
and I face my days full of fight
but sometimes I want to just sleep
and wake up in some other room

You can never bring it to me

If I remember them every daysooner or later the medicines take
and there I am all alone in time
a room where I need nothing else
where I don't let the telephone ring
time marks itself in subtle ways as
I try and put everything in its place
trying to bring my own devastation
so I never have to fear it again
and you can never bring it to me