Isolation

ISOLATION

There's just me here
a tainted fellow
a marlin swift, a blurred yellow
then sunlight wretches
and reveals night.

But I am followed
odd people come
attracted by lost light, drawn in
memories fire again
old ties burn anew..

I am a convict in a wide open space
lassoed by friendly tongues
hemmed in by the herd
peripheral vision on overdrive
waiting for the crack of dawn.