#ASMSGPoetry SHIFTY SNEAKY

SHIFTY SNEAKY

How could they take so much?

Without so much as a touch

Their eyes hidden behind their shifty, sneaky interiors

Sneak in without a word

Thieves in the daylight

Moonless night

Sneaking in under a dark, dark cloud

Their world sunless, starless

Shadowy, ghostly and cagey

Their furtive, secretive, stealthiest world

They take your belongings

Your heart and soul

The most treasured possessions

And use them for their own ends

Leaving you weak, helpless

Leaving you with the barest of barest

Leaving you vulnerable

Defenceless, powerless

Take a long, long look at those eyes

Those prying, spying eyes

They are all around us, you and I!

Watching and waiting

For the moment to strike, strike so hard!

Hard enough that you will not notice

They are there behind our backs

They are there in front of our faces

They are there to the left and to the right

And they will strike

Strike with might!

Any time of the day or night

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

6^th June 2013

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