Keeper -
The scent of your absence
lingers long in fading note
damp ground of rotting leaves
gasping fish sunning on the shore.
Green life once hanging more
over rippling water where
you reeled me in, taking your time.
Wriggling, squirming in your hands
my body tensed to fight
but mind lost in delight
soon shocked as you ripped my guts
pulling out your hook
just to throw me back in that brook.
Guess I wasn’t a keeper.
The scent of your absence
lingers long in fading note
damp ground of rotting leaves
gasping fish sunning on the shore.
Green life once hanging more
over rippling water where
you reeled me in, taking your time.
Wriggling, squirming in your hands
my body tensed to fight
but mind lost in delight
soon shocked as you ripped my guts
pulling out your hook
just to throw me back in that brook.
Guess I wasn’t a keeper.