Cirque du Soleil
A focused lens swivels
A spotlight blinding those who might be riding the tightrope today
A circus of displays disguised in the guise of learning
And someone might think this was school in the way that children leapt about in carefully displayed enthusiasm
But not in the way her entire being traced the kapla blocks
Concentration poised at the end of her fingertips
Lips pursed as she sought to avoid the disturbances of fun
She preferred the delicately placed trees
And the quiet of perfect resentment
Held in the burning hollow of her throat
She tried to build a wall of her kapla blocks to shut out the world but the spotlight glared at her and twitters of words seeped out of the shadows
The child-demons danced as close as they dared to with her aura screaming tension and perhaps hate
Their murderous attentions could not be help for long
Other predators less protective of their creations called them-blood in the water-and the sharks are always hungry
She is zealously watching and adding…refining
Our entire world was a marble in her palm being shaped to something worthy of interest and intent to keep the characters at bay
The painted faces and Gucci handbags faded in and out from the shadow-curtain of popularity
The clowns aren't supposed to come 'til 5 when not even the spotlight speaks among the frozen machines, a diminished fairground
But she wipes that all away with a toss of her hair and refuses to let time hold her art hostage
She forgets she is not immortal in the grand scheme of things
She forgets time cannot be molded in her hands as so many others have used money to do
She forgets there is time where all things must end, as all things are apt to do
The spotlight dims and the shadows reach closer amidst the avid applause spawned of human horror
And the touch of boredom strokes the 4 o'clock bell in slow toll
Scintillating waterfall of screams pierce the hearts of the damned
As the display disguised in the guise of pride falls down to gravity's mercy
Time sneaks by, outside of her grasp and futilely she snatches at time's heels and flying kapla blocks
But
London Bridge is falling down…