sometimesihatemycat

My heart thumped hard
Unwieldy inside my chest
Rapped and echoed wild against
These hardened hollow bones
Like a large crazed landlord
Demanding past due rent, or more
Desperate from the other side
Of his tenant’s deadbolt-door

-me

Painting by Daniel Carranza

~ by April on May 3, 2018.

Posted in Body, Humanity, Identity, Loss, Love, Poetry
Tags: Body, Courage, Door, Fear, heart, Landlord, Loss, Love, Peephole, Poetry, Rent, Tenant