Canopy

I was playing around with rhyming and this is what I came up with.

Canopy

Here…Come sit with me.

Keep me company

Under this misshapen canopy.

Come and occupy my time.

There look at the lime

On the ground.

Why is there a lime laying around?

Under the canopy

Come, talk with me.

See up there

Look at the animals with the red in their hair

Birds with wings of flight

They always take a gruesome plight.

Come watch with me

And look just ahead

Do you see the thin thread?

Invisible feet walk across

Following the rules of their boss.

 

It moves,

Barely,

Just enough so I can see it gleam in the sun.

But under the canopy the sun cant reach

Black Leech

Crawl across your foot.

There’s a train leaving in the distance going “toot toot”

 

This canopy with its black tops hides the truth

You can’t see what’s happening to Ruth.

Her stare is black and dull

And her heart has sank.

Because of his cruel prank.

Tears silent as the canopy’s wind

Unheard, unseen…who would they send?

There goes that lime

It’s just about that time.

 

Come walk with me

It’s a long journey do you have to pee?

We have to make it there

Next to the animals with the red hair.

To watch the Birds as they take their last flight,

Just before their destructive plight.

 

Damn that lime…the time

Reviews

[Pax]

mysterious poem, if i may say or its just me.
the rhyming is really good.

[marytownsend]

I like the rhyme and the mystery of this poem! There does seem to be a feeling of the unknown and of anxiety, maybe flight! Wonderfully written!

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Starkly terrifying............wonderful write.