Eyes Don't Swallow

[mathiasthom]

Double standards
fuck the pecking order
don't gripe about my choice of words
you're the one pointless and absurd

Walked home in the rain again
watching farmers trying to entice
by giving looks as hard as ice,
but eyes don't swallow

Avoiding company
yet eating from my table
I'm just a shadow
a wraith of a wrath

Where is this family?
abandoned homestead
mother is dead
and everything fell apart

Met her on the sly
stolen moments captured
by digital photography,
caught and trapped forever

Walked home in the rain again
gazing into angry headlights
as the vehicles swerve closer
seeing the whites of narrow eyes

mathiasthom
written 11/27/11