Monday, February 14, 2011

a riddle

what changes color
from passionate purple to bulbous black?
what changes texture
from warm soft fur, to slithering granite?
what is powerful beyond belief
painful beyond relief
and acts as a saint and a thief?
sanctifying and robbing a helpless soul?
what changes with each dawn
metamorphs and blooms and dies
what causes an ache
so that it is difficult to breathe
but yet still causes an elation
that also takes one's breath away...
a kite that soars among cirrus
a cockroach that scurries under lava rock

this is a kaleidoscope
an endless maze of illusions
a labyrinth difficult to escape


-pamplemousse

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