Come Not.

Come not when I am distracted

or looking somewhere else for a diversion,

when the present is so ugly

and the future is so squalid,

When I am painting everything

in the colours of the rainbow

to forget the meaningless of now.

Come not when everything is said and done

because at that point I will be the court jester

when there is no tomorrow

when all pour yesterdays have become

the shadows on the wall

to scare as away like little birds that forage

or when I have realized that

whether coming or going you shall remain

an accident.

Alfred Grech

24-09-2014.