Right as Rain

Most of us know by now

a lie when offered one.

Sometimes we pretend its shiny

and something marvelously new,

like 'you look beautiful today'.

Well, I'm no idiom, 

but if little white ones cause no pain

a lie can feel good and right as rain.

After You, I insist

If we conclude

that the cart can pull the horse-

would we arrive

before our name?

Say we saw the shells

showing

the chicken hatched 

his plans

first

How many baskets will we need

to not shatter

the image we

reflect into existence

consciously mirroring 

before me?

Just One

holding half

of the analogy

pulling the last straw

to see

who goes

first.

Image by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.