"The Enigma"

A vertical line set on the right,

The standard

A shorter horizontal line to meet at the base

The support

Space set in between that and a gaping hole to the right,

It’s mouth as open as a hungry heart

Shocked

To the right, two lines originate from the same place,

Harmonious

Deciding to go their separate ways

One set on Northwest, The Other

Northeast

To the right, a vertical line segment

Attached

To three shorter line segments

Hanging on for dear life

One at the very top,

One at the very bottom,

And one in between,

Guarded.

Lost in a sea of symbols and paired with hatred,

Deities and Atheists alike…

Sought out and mixed with images

One night stands, multiple shareholders,

A hunger never being satisfied, the deep colors;

Red and blood,

Images as desperate as death and as wet as tears,

Wilted flowers and bleeding backs,

Wanted no matter the swollen gorging eyes and internal bleeding,

Sharing of self, loss of treasures, crumbled tissues,

A lifetime of nomadic living…

The only home housing the lost,

Harboring in what we run from…

Seen and felt and tasted and heard and smelled–

Still no one knows what this is.