Leaky Savages

Memories unfold

leaky savages in my pain garden

Sorrow creeps in gloved

pantomiming gentility

obscuring reality

Smiles shatter resolve

a pointless masquerade

All leaky savages in my pain garden

Dancing round

placating

posing

pointless

And I succumb

sour-faced and desirous

of something infinitely better

Power beyond leaky savages

and pantomimed gentility

Truth

That's it

I want truth

Don't you

Image by: Julian Bock