Jealousy
Straight face, don’t flinch, don’t frown, not an inch. Look straight ahead as though you’re focused on time and space, think about something good something lovely to keep you from smacking their smirky face.
If they turn around and smile at you as though they admire your grace, smile back just a little the kind that will put them in a place, to believe that you have no idea their smile is hiding hate-saturated with envy wishing for the portion on your plate.
You’ll never have to address them, they cower behind jealousy tricked by the lies rocked to sleep by the melody.
The lies pull them to the side when their all alone, hovering to monitor bait like a government operated drone, feeding them poison every chance they get, got them looking at you as though you stole something that was never meant, for them.
Subconsciously they admire you but the deceit runs too deep, it won’t allow them to partake in the wonderful of you they’ll never meet. It cradles them in its arms and rocks them to sleep.
It began when they were very young, just a little twig, drip drip drip the lies deposited into this kid.
Drip drip drip filling their psyche, never too much, drip drip drip no one will notice if we keep it on the hush drip drip drip what was once just a puddle can fill a whole land. Drip drip drip their about to unleash where there is no dam.
Jealousy.
Happy National Poetry Month!