Inchworm Tailor
By tigerlilly
Inchworm trailing from a silken thread, Emerald body matching leaves overhead. I ask you sir, or is it madam... Why have you come down? Will you measure me for a shirt Or for a new silk gown? I watched your approaching Against the background of a cloud. You made me think of heaven... Do you think I need a shroud? Is this the task you’ve set about For whatever it is worth? Are you trying to tell me soon, I’ll be ‘neath six feet of earth? Don’t you know I’d rather Own a 'broidered smock so keen? Or a lovely purple velvet cloak To drape 'round me...like a queen? I’d settle for an apron, All my kitchen work to do, Perhaps a kerchief for my hair… I’d wish for one of blue. But, you tell me fate has sent you, Though you know I will lament... You have surely come to measure me For death’s drab raiment. Nothing for me left to do then, Why should I care for good fit? If all I’m going to dress for, Is my own dark graveyard pit.all comments and critiques welcomed :) Written March 22nd, 2002 © on Mar 22 2002 02:16 AM PST 0 • 10
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