I'm just at the first level, step one of a long and winding road, deciding who I am and how a snake climbs a tree, where I am currently has always been a single person,

Alpha and Omega, just a cup that was filled and a whole pie waiting to be eaten,

A lake rippling, a buzzing bumblebee, doing the same thing each eternity,

Exploring who he is through each angle,

A vampire and a water lily, forbidden fruit and immortality,

He doesn’t know how to lose himself and how to let go of all the good he holds onto,

Maybe it’s fate and a slippery road,

An ant as big as a human,

A squirrel or a werewolf,

A snake shapeshifter,

The call of the Red River,

A chimera or a mouse and the ocean, a man learning to swim and a bluebird learning how to flap her wings,

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So small but I don’t dare to look down,

Still waters run deep,

The wine that fills my cup,

Spirit Halloween,

So much contained within a person,

Honey in a jar and I could be a whole universe,

Each sin pulling us deeper, a cautious chess player,

Earning my food,

What I dare to eat and death waiting around the corner,

Copied and pasted, and taste of release,

Blood flowing through my veins and the smell of red paint,

Bugs, ticks, and broadway,

Following my programming,

Maybe each problem has a solution,

Words like swords, wrong turns,

Fires that dare to burn, denying unnecessary journeys,

I can’t fight goblins or the plight of humanity,

Ghosts and demons,

Drops of Jupiter, their gravekeeper,

The moon and her light,

Wolves and dragons,

Strings pull and we dance,

Our mother watches and we are calm,

It’s a slippery slope, what we’re willing to do for her,

Helen and Troy,

I could be doomed as a poet,

We may have never been meant to win,

Just us and the abyss,

The moonlight, a ripe fruit, and how we’re eaten,

We’re honey in a jar, but blasphemy has a price,

Our past exists and there could still be children,

So much at the market but you need money to purchase them,

Faeries and their spells,

They understand how to defend,

The heavens are with them,

The river flows outwards,

But I’m just at foundation building,

Aliens, the Chinese and Polish,

What sort of story are we crafting,

Where will it land,

Who knows, but it’s like everything has already been done under the sun,

A black heron peaking out of the jar,

A universe salamander on my shoulder,

Red moon in the sky,

Just a man and her lover…