03-12-2014, 08:06 PM
Shoulder bag and shoe dragged,
two point two miles – there and back again.
Class segregated by a ten plus one ratio,
colour rejected, sorted by red bricks or whitewash.
The brown eyed, mouse haired crew did not do blond and blue.
The shabby chic hand me downs, did not fit
amid a cat walk of polyester skirts
crisply iron shirts and the new style cuts.
The options were - walk in front, under the burn
of each predator’s turn to glare and torment;
or lag behind in frozen isolation, swallowed
by the creeping fog; the following Black Panther.
A footpath wound through up lit meadows,
but each hesitant step led directly to the dark tree
that creaked with the hanging bough.
Full of silent twigs with claws.
When the herd moves on, the damp drips of mist
soon cover the tracks of a lone beast. As the sunset breeze
moves the leaves and the land breathes out, small sounds
snap in the synapses of the hunter, who becomes the hunted.
two point two miles – there and back again.
Class segregated by a ten plus one ratio,
colour rejected, sorted by red bricks or whitewash.
The brown eyed, mouse haired crew did not do blond and blue.
The shabby chic hand me downs, did not fit
amid a cat walk of polyester skirts
crisply iron shirts and the new style cuts.
The options were - walk in front, under the burn
of each predator’s turn to glare and torment;
or lag behind in frozen isolation, swallowed
by the creeping fog; the following Black Panther.
A footpath wound through up lit meadows,
but each hesitant step led directly to the dark tree
that creaked with the hanging bough.
Full of silent twigs with claws.
When the herd moves on, the damp drips of mist
soon cover the tracks of a lone beast. As the sunset breeze
moves the leaves and the land breathes out, small sounds
snap in the synapses of the hunter, who becomes the hunted.