Sunday, 23 November 2008

Tangential Musings

A stranger knocked on my door one day asking
For a place to rest his feet
Against my better judgement back I stood
Welcoming him in from the bitter-cold street

No sooner had he entered the door he smashed

My porcelain pride, and shattered my glass heart

He turned the house upside down
And tore the place apart


Amid the chaos he sat, gazing

At his masterpiece on a hard backed chair

A smile on his face, his beautiful face,

That charmed me, always unfair


I stood without knowing what to say

Except to ask his name

Love, he told me, for so long he knocked

On my door, shut out again
And again and again.