Day Four

100 PERCENT FOOL

I am 100 percent fool 

for when I am around you

My tongue becomes clumsy

pushing foolish words

from my silly, smiling lips

I act the fool when you smile

lips, but that I could softly kiss

your teeth like precious pearls

music of the angels when you speak

I am running to pick up the flowers

that fall from your pretty mouth

Happiness is a seat next to you

grabbing the scraps of your words

wolfing them down like a hungry dog

you turn your head and your hair

dark as the midnight sun

falls across your lovely shoulder

in my mind I see my fingers

threading through it silken strands

Yes, I am 100 percent fool

for you don't even know I am alive

You look through me when he enters

The glow from your eyes lights the room

I see love stand between the two of you

a magnet pulling at your hearts

and the love I foolishly hold for you

falls to the cold, hard floor

to shatter like my silly porcelain heart

Yes, I am 100 percent fool

      Janice Kuykendall

      April 4, 2012