With Caution Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is with caution now
that i look at your face
and figure out the
real meaning of your
smile and frown

how you appear
like a dove and in
a minute change
into a fox is a
phenomenon that
i have learned to
live with

how you devour me
like you were
leviathan and then
spit me like i am
the modern jonah
is a miracle that i
must not forget

how you have become
a god of demigods
how you manage to
make and unmake me

these i have learned
with so much pain
and humiliation

now, i am invisible
with all caution
i have also learned
the art of the chameleon

what color do you see
when i turn into someone
not me? what ill wind do you
feel when i also turn
invisible, divisible, and into
someone impossible?