Day: August 18, 2020

Le Filou

when donned the mask
the transformation
smoulders forth the other

the fantasy
on wings of dreams
your lovely le filou

she is she
yet too
the other

unleashed at light of passion’s moon
manifest at your request
sustained this night
at her delight

she is your isis
she is your venus
she is your every longing loosed

and you

her jester
her lustful fool

she brings everything in life you miss
bestowed with aphrodite’s kiss
but as you burn you should know this
beneath the mask waits a strange abyss

~ ~ ~

rob kistner © 2020

…in keeping with my ‘dark’ suspicions about clowns…

Laughing Larry

“gaze upon me
if you will
my countenance crafted
to fool
and thrill

I’ve spent years in greasepaint
fear
and sorrow
I rue the past
I dread tomorrow”

they call me laughing larry

it wasn’t intentional
you see

I only wanted her to
hear me

to know my heart

but her laughter
her hollow
taunting laughter
her laughter wouldn’t stop

it wouldn’t stop
and I needed her to hear me
to understand how I felt

but the laughing
and laughing
the incessant laughing
I simply couldn’t have the laughing

so I made it stop

now I hide behind this painted smile
now everyone is laughing
and laughing

but I no longer hear

I’ll spend years in greasepaint
fear
and sorrow
rueing the past
dreading tomorrow

~ ~ ~

rob kistner © 2020