SALVATION IS WITHIN YOU


"SALVATION IS
WITHIN YOU!"

said the crumbling
brick wall

with a brick or two
missing

in a spraycan-ish
graffiti voice.

A one-eyed cat
appeared

to be the owner
of this wall

patrolling it fiercely
back and forth backandforth.

"SALVINATION IS WITHIN YOU!"
the wall kept repeating.

The rain was
unrelenting

as if it bore a grudge
against the world

of this
particular moment.

The rain hopping off the ground
and disappearing back into

its falling self.

I wished I could do that.

Hunger gnawed
at me.

My stomach growled
at a passing dog

and the passing dog
growled at me.

The piece of darkness
in the shape of a one-eyed cat

saw it
on its way.

Tail between its legs
the scruffy dog whined off.

I rested my weariness
against the SALV

of the red and blue bricked
scrawl

ATION
emerging from my right temple.

Even the graffiti
seemed to resent

my presence.

I looked within me
and found

the usual
nothing.

The day was ten years long and
had barely begun.

"SALVATION IS
WITHIN YOU!"

I told the rain
falling in fast forward

as I was held
on pause.

But the rain
wasn't listening

to anyone but
itself.