Relationship Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Relationship

Much younger; he thought same
"In cage, zoo, were women, crocodiles."

Then comments, complaints:
"We felt them, empathized' came to help,
finally released them…"

Then he sighed
in his eyes ran smoke; not smile
hand hammer, on table he slammed:
"God damn it."

His voice hit against wall
wall to wall
creepy reflection; an echo:
"crocodile ate rabbits and the hens…"

A short pause:
"and women we freed, crush us…"

Yellowish
dandelion in the wind:
"ancestors knew best…cage is all they deserve."

He reached out for dagger
smashed it in his heart:
"better dead than living among them."

In short time, part of earth he became.

Needing him, some women wept, cried.