A Strawberry in Winter

A Strawberry in Winter

By: Husam (Sam) Salman

Even as he passed me

I couldn't believe it.

Hey mister,

Wanna give me a ride?

What’chu got?

Epoxy resin attitude, unmixed

Buys with contempt of the fix

Fate unwritten,

but jonesing to be ‘dicked’.

Junkies don’t know no time
She a T-Rex,

Focusing on anything

That moves.

Stoned pirate, got fucked in the face

By his hammer and fist.

You only found out in the morning

Because your ass hurt.

No one talked to you

Because you were naked

Wrapped only by a

Street found mattress

Even the bus driver didn’t charge you – fair.

Sometimes you rode in a car.

To real house

And fucked to get high

And got higher, fucking

Sail like a wind, away from your self

and emotions…don’t even think about it

BOY!

(Those died years ago…apparently)

                When time collides with fate it creates destiny.

Hey strawberry boy, were you destined to die on

This mountain?

of lonely streets and bastardized existence

Wandering the surreal alleys ‘alone’?

Surrounded by affected ‘souls’

                He picked you up

To get you high

To fuck you good

…that’s all he wanted!!

He was at least nice enough to usher you to the door when

He was done.

…I don’t care!! Get out!!

These are the fruit you can

Pick from,

This is the fate

You’re currently

‘working’ on.

Both painful and pitiful

Viewed by the eyes of every

I know you want to change the world

And think you are beyond everyone else

But if everyone is still pointing at this

You can’t forever believe that EVERONE else is

Wrong

because a handful of naiveté got together and

Decided that “this” is ‘good’!

Your emotional detachment

Will be the burden

And misery, that you

Abandon onto others – ALWAYS

(Because you’re still a boy, only doing childish things.)

How proud you hold your head

High in the clouds and buried in the sand.

In the search for understanding

When fate and time

Are star crossed lovers

Your illusion

Will blow up in your

Pretty little face

Supernova

Of destiny.