Reveling in daytime glee
the joy of social throes in tow
While hours pass and minutes flee
the mark of human emblems glow
by common feeling among those friends
to pass my life, to enjoy their airs
But crossing smiles define my trends
and sags by subtle weights it bears.
Indeed they see and draw embrace
indulge in me with kinder cares
Lamentable to find defaced
extended hands to take in theirs
A truer set I could not find
To renew a vision once beheld
And plant the germ to grow inside
entice the bloom, remove the veil.
My caps of ice, except not cold
by warmth the loving outside share
In company I find their mold
but in this cage I do not dare.
I fright, I flee, I look away
Passion’s eye in lasting pour
I gray the color of their ray
Until in me I find no more.
-j.m.
