Freak
When dogs grow antlers, hooves,
And stags loll out their tongues,
When from the throats of wolves
A sparrow’s song is sung
When from the backs of whales
The manes of lions spring,
When lizards shake their tails
Like puppies beckoning
No reason makes a change
Except for nature’s play,
The commons of the strange
Arrives by naked day
And Truth herself appears
Unwanted and unwed,
A widow without tears
A hunger still unfed
And she who is forsaken
Distorted by a lust,
A freak the wise abandoned
Ransacks the world for us
Pavel
May 24, 2011