Retemomreht

Always remembered in the light,

You showed the coldness in the bowels of the earth,

Yet you were shoved into a corner

Of the bland earth, not looking after smooth preps.

Unheeded by bimbos,

Completely content

In your wealth of surroundings

And you stayed put

Wanting to go, but ungratefully, you were

Placed during the sunrise,

Staying put for an enemies enjoyment,

And for his enemies experiment.

From the bright day to the murkey depths

Into the foaming sand,

That mineral enriched mud,

With all the life forms teeming,

Better off than after,

When you bumped into the smooth

preps once again.

Never told to stay put, stroked feet

And lightly speckled, wide-open mouths.

When you kept the chill:

42°F,

unconsistent,

with Freddy dead, good company. 

Her stunted growth,

Smaller and smaller,

Because he starved her and ignored her.

Less peeping eyes and softly squeezing feet,

Ignored you too-

Uncaring if you would start to be

Unsure of yourself.

Thermometer

In a dark and forgotten place,

with no one to show the world’s warmth to.

Taken in by salty water

to tend spiny urchins in a tank.

Watched over by the few scientifically minded, but still

sort of lonely in sterile surroundings.

Unbidden, but gratefully, you traveled,

stolen during dusk, taken

from the murky closet to the brightly cluttered desk.

Into the still water,

The distilled water:

No life that you could sense, seemingly worse off.

Bumped by other needled creatures

often moved, by grabbing hands

with darkly rimmed, peeping eyes.

And still you kept the temperature: 24°C,

constant.

After it hatched, also alone.

Growing bigger and bigger every day

because she Fed him, Watched him, Obsessed over him.

More peering eyes and groping fingers

watched you too,

to see if you would continue to remain

Constant.