SUBTERFUGE

I turn and swirl in endless motions

grasping at spineless dreams

clasping reeds of needs

gasping for elusive airs

my mortality affirmed

by this whirlwind of needs

deeds, not needs

still

the worst of me cancels

fades out in the face of the best of me

what then is immortality

we are in this together

even though
the viciousness of old dogs

now flirts dangerously close

to the carelessness of you

we are in this together

my mortality
affirmed

by this whirlwind of needs.

© April 2015