FourFiveTwo: with scales

Greed is the creature with scales
that dwells in the darkest depths
slithering so easily around Humility
and longing for longer legs,

And with the sharpest tongue, cuts itself
and coils tight to stop the bleeding
that tension sutures and dies blue red faced
that fire would also feign

I too, have heard the low-lying rattle
and been prey to leers from low in the fallows
yet, always, a path broken
gives every thing away.




Artwork by Arthur Rackham [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bottomless Pit

Always Yessss

Giving of yourself fills

instead of empties

Time is precious

Time doesn't matter

We have forever

We only have this 

moment

Your presence comforts

and tucks in loose ends

When you think you cannot

utter how much

it doubles

It is violent sometimes

passionate always

lights a higher wattage

elevates skin, tactile

and smell, enhanced

breath and glance

Always withdrawing

never replenishing

It demands One

greater power

at all times

It crushes the other under

its obligation

slithers into shoulds

inconcertina locomotion

nestled in your snaky needs

a serpentine fork

Loves anivenom

Consumes more than

its out weight in

carniverous ways

of sanssss sssseriffssss

charmed by the cold-blooded

constriction of I love you

insatiably. 

Image By NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / University of Arizona [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Descripton Details English: "Dark pits on some of the Martian volcanoes have been speculated to be entrances into caves. A previous HiRISE image, looking essentially straight down, saw only darkness in this pit. This time the pit was imaged from the west. Since the picture was taken at about 2:30 p.m. local (Mars) time, the sun was also shining from the west. We can now see the eastern wall of the pit catching the sunlight.

This confirms that this pit is essentially a vertical shaft cut through the lava flows on the flank of the volcano. Such pits form on similar volcanoes in Hawaii and are called "pit craters." They generally do not connect to long open caverns but are the result of deep underground collapse. From the shadow of the rim cast onto the wall of the pit we can calculate that the pit is at least 178 meters (584 feet) deep. The pit is 150 x 157 meters (492 x 515 feet) across. Written by: Laszlo P. Keszthelyi."