diabolical
I wander streets
and shadowed alleyways
crook backed out of sight

you stand alone
to contemplate
waxing gibbous orb
reflected solar light

ravenous predator
cosmic caricature
craving humanity
unsuccessfully

Esmeralda
I whisper
whimper
mournfully
in obscurity

morning light
disintegrates
any hope I had
metamorphic
frozen calcified

I watch you dance away.