Oblivious Defeat
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His hair was sand paper
and his skin was light colored leather
and his face was a canyon
and his eyes were small black beads
and his mouth was a desert.
His laugh was a snickering hyena
and his sneeze was thunder
and his burp was lightening.
His nose was a vacuum cleaner
and his nose hairs were dusters.
His chest was a pillow
and his heart was a dead end job.
and kindness was a 10,000 piece puzzle
and his attention was a speeding vehicle
and his vision was a drunken driver
His arms were a jail cell
and his touch was a ghost
His wallet was a vault
and his money was a long contract.
and his health was dirt
His blood was a furnace
and his temper was a dwarf
and his words were blood thirsty knives
and his humor was a serial killer
and his thoughts were desks of jumbled papers
and his faith was a coffin.
His grin was a coiled rattle snake ready to attack
and his presence was a fatal disease
and his footprints were false gold.
His one liners were gunshots in an amusement park
and his legs were navy ships
and his steps were death
and his toes were gas soaked tulips.
And she was an answered prayer.
Her appearance was an unforeseen miracle.
She was the sand, and he, the ocean. Together they were the beach.
His receding waves took too much of her with every crash.
She warned him, but skepticism wouldn’t allow him to accept it.
When he returned, she was gone,
alone,
left with nothing.
He doesn’t seem to mind.