You held me

Harmless

Have you ever had an itch

You just can’t scratch

Like a cat in the sun

You stretch to get that last ray

Just a little more you think

Arm yourself with the concept

Of total fulfillment

Go on trying to get that

Livin life in which

You to the extreme

Give it up to me

To find my place in this

Your schrade cuts me up

And down in and inside out

Like that cat stretching fourth

Your claws rip without warning

That one’s gonna leave a mark

And I thought you harmless

What a fool am I

To think that of you

You have no reason to be gentle

And every excuse to be harsh

And still I thought

You harmless but I

Have been known to

Believe what I see at first glance

Still my racing heart

You stood there in the light

So ephemeral

Diaphanous your beauty

Flutters in the gentle breeze

And I thought you harmless

Still my racing

Mind your manners

Are you so harsh as to

Not see in me

That which I wish to show

You

Diaphanous though your beauty may be

Your claws are sharp

And still I thought you harmless

Your beauty masking

A sharpened heart

Willing to cut outside of the lines

You

Took me for a midnight ride

Down lanes less traveled by the wary

And still I thought you blameless

And you were

At least that is what I have been lead to believe

Chris McQueeney    11/30/14

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